Stars, prospects make Israel’s 2023 World Baseball Classic roster the greatest Jewish baseball team ever assembled. See the full list.
Out of 35 players on the squad, 15 have MLB experience — and a few more will soon
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Sports Is White Sox ace Dylan Cease Jewish?
The 2022 Cy Young runner-up was on the early roster for Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic. We tried to find out why.
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Sports Before he plays for Team Israel, Harrison Bader rescues the Yankees
In this week’s division series, Bader became only the second player in Yankee history to hit 3 home runs in his first 4 postseason games
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Sports ‘You grab ahold of your people’: Former MLB star Ian Kinsler leads a new team in Israel
The four-time All Star and member of the 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox will manage Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic
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Sports At World Baseball Classic, Israel will need all the Jewish muscle it can muster
They're in a 'pool of death' with some Latin American powerhouses
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Opinion Watching Team Israel’s Olympic run — and loss — taught me about Jewish resilience
In 2017, I was a high school junior who usually struggled to wake up on time for school. And yet, at 5:30 am one morning in early March, I sat wide-eyed on my family room couch, watching a baseball game. It was the opening game of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, the foremost international baseball…
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Life Israel Baseball Makes History — and Makes a Grizzled Sportswriter a Fan Again
When I heard that Israel’s national baseball team would play its final Olympic qualifying game on Sunday at noon in Parma, Italy, I did the quick math from my hotel room in Scottsdale, Ariz., where I’m currently covering baseball for MLB.com. Noon in Italy meant 3 a.m. here. So I set my alarm for 2:45…
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Opinion Is The World Baseball Classic An Error For The Jews?
On March 6th the Israeli national baseball team will take the field for the first game of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) against Korea, in Seoul. This is the first time Israel has qualified for the WBC and reason for Israel’s nascent baseball program to celebrate — sort of. The team that will represent Israel…
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