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, never crossed his mind.

When a group of mostly American Jewish baseball players arrived in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics, they had multiple responsibilities. First among them was to represent Team Israel in its first-ever ...

Baseball has changed in the 12 years it’s been missing from the Olympics. Israel, for starters, now has one of the world’s best teams. After a surprise run at the 2017 World Baseball Classic ...

Never has Israel won an Olympic medal in a team sport. The chances would have been 50-50 this summer. Israel had qualified for one of the six spots in the Olympic baseball field. On Monday, Team ...

This is part of the fabric of Team Israel, making it one of the most unique Olympic teams in history. They have a 42-year-old pitcher (Shlomo Lipetz) who works for a New York City winery.

The Israeli baseball team will make its Olympic debut later this month, headlined by four-time All-Star Ian Kinsler. He is one of eight players on the 24-man team with Major League Baseball experience ...

The Israel national baseball team begins Olympic play on July 29 against South Korea. It will be the first team sport to represent Israel at the Olympic games since 1976.

Israel’s Olympic baseball team preps ... DESPITE back-to-back losses to Italy and Spain at the European Baseball Championship in Germany, Israel still finished among the top five teams and will ...

Israel’s unlikely Olympic baseball team dreams big for Japan After ‘unbelievable’ run that saw them qualify for one of just 6 spots, the players — mostly US Jews who are getting ...

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 ...