Pitching In the Promised Land
A Story of the First and Only Season In the Israel Baseball League
Aaron Pribble
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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.

- $24.99
- Category: Baseball
- Published: Apr 01, 2011
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Seller: The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
- Print Length: 278 Pages
- Language: English
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