"He went yardo on that one, all the way to Landsdowne Street!"
Posted on 09/22/2019 9:15:41 AM PDT by BigEdLB
The Israeli team made history Sunday by defeating South Africa 11-1 in Italy, after beating the Netherlands on Thursday and tournament host Italy on Friday.
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The Netherlands have been historically the best European baseball team, because of the players from Surinam, so that’s quite a feat for Israel.
Baseball is becoming more and more popular in Israel, thanks to recent immigrants.
"He went yardo on that one, all the way to Landsdowne Street!"
Aruba and Curacao. I don’t think Suriname qualifies as Dutch anymore.
They would have been a dominant Olympic team years ago if the IOC allowed those great professional players of the past in the Olympics ... like Abe Ruth, Shlomo DiMaggio, Mordecai Mantle and Pete Rosenstein. :-P
Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax, that’s a pretty good start, right there.
Recent major-leaguer Danny Valencia is an Israeli citizen and team star. Some other countries like Italy use the same strategy.
There was an article about the Israeli team in the WSJ a few weeks ago. The team is mostly American Jews who have dual citizenship. Nothing wrong with that, though. Mazel tov!
Has the media got their requisite sound-bites from IAW/BDS and Roger Waters yet?
Blah blah blah... This is an outrage! the IOC should force them to compete as the Palestine Team! Blah blah blah...
There are Arabs in youth leagues in Israel.
Italy does the same thing, and probably other nations as well.
At least they are on the “Famous Jewish Sports Legends” leaflet.
Brings a smile.
Mostly players from Curacao and Aruba, which have produced numerous major leaguers.
The Netherlands got to the semifinals of the last World Baseball Classic due to players from the Netherlands Antilles such as Xander Bogaerts, Andrelton Simmons, Didi Gregorius, Jurickson Profar, and others, all eager to play for the manager, Giants bench coach Hensley (Bam Bam) Meulens (who ought to be a major-league manager, IMO.)
Yup mazel tov
Yup mazel tov
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