Pitching In the Promised Land Pitching In the Promised Land

Pitching In the Promised Land

A Story of the First and Only Season In the Israel Baseball League

    • 69,99 lei
    • 69,99 lei

Publisher Description

It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach’s suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish descent (not a requirement, but definitely a plus) and former pro, Pribble was the ideal candidate for the upstart league. In many ways the league resembled the ultimate baseball fantasy camp with its unforgettable cast of characters: the DJ/street artist third baseman from the Bronx, the wildman catcher from Australia, the journeymen Dominicans who were much older than they claimed to be, and, of course, seventy-one-year-old Sandy Koufax, drafted in a symbolic gesture as the last player.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2011
1 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
278
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Nebraska Press
SIZE
8.7
MB