SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — They are finally back together, playing baseball for the first time since qualifying for the Olympics nearly two years ago, but that elation and joy has turned to fear and anxiety.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — As a baseball-crazed kid growing up in Miami, Danny Valencia dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. The thought of heading to the Olympics, for a foreign country no less, ...

(JTA) — The love affair between Jews and baseball stretches back decades. But it hasn’t always extended to the Jewish state. The Israel Baseball League, launched in 2007, folded after only one season.

For the first time, players currently on Major League Baseball rosters are joining Team Israel in next year’s World Baseball Classic — and there could be a lot of them. As many as 12 current Major ...

Playing on the 2023 Israel team at the World Baseball Classic was “an amazing experience, and I couldn’t pass up the ...

Israel’s national baseball team will be training in New York state ahead of the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics this summer, Israel’s Association of Baseball announced. The team is partnering with the New ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 22: Ian Kinsler #3 of team United States reacts after scoring a run off a hit by Christian Yelich #7 for a 3-0 lead over Puerto Rico in the fifth inning during Game 3 of the ...

TOKYO (CBSNewYork/AP) — With a little help from "The Mensch on the Bench" mascot, Team Israel is into the second round of the World Baseball Classic. Just 41st in the world rankings, Israel shocked ...

TOKYO — Shlomo Lipetz was on the first baseball team to represent Israel in an international event at Little League World Series preliminaries in Germany in 1989. He was 10. The Israelis were ...

Israel recorded nine hits but lost 5-1 to Venezuela in its final World Baseball Classic game. On Wednesday, Israel’s bats came alive in the final game, with nine hits, including three for Noah ...

Baseball is extremely popular in the United States, and has strong pockets of popularity throughout the world in places such as Latin America, Japan and South Korea. The World Baseball Classic, a ...

The inaugural player draft for the Israel Baseball League started with a 22-year-old Jewish prospect and ended with a 71-year-old Jewish Hall of Famer. With the first selection in the six-team draft ...