Israel’s national baseball team defeated Cuba 4-1 in the first game of the second round of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday, the latest shock upset for the Jewish state’s underdog sports team.
Israel’s batters overcame an early 1-0 deficit, and the team’s pitchers kept the heavily favored Cuban team to just five hits, continuing the squad’s…
If Ty Kelly is searching for material for his next screenplay, he doesn’t have to look very far.
According to his W-2, Kelly is a professional baseball player. But what Uncle Sam doesn’t know — at least not yet — is that the 28-year-old infielder is an up-and-coming screenwriter. That is, when he isn’t busy moonlighting as the starting shortstop…
SEOUL, South Korea — When Sam Fuld, a journeyman outfielder, hit a line-drive single to open an exhibition game between Team Israel and a squad representing the South Korean Army the other day, one of his teammates on the bench, third baseman Cody Decker, yelled, “Nobody, and I mean nobody, no-hits the Jews!”
The exhortation was part bravado, part…