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Article: Israel sees pro ball for the first time: 'Holy Land Hardball' documents rise of the IBL.
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2008
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What did it take to bring baseball to Israel, a sport foreign to a country primarily concerned with basketball and soccer? More work than one might expect, as the recently released documentary "Holy Land Hardball" proved.
With the budget of a startup company and inspiration to bring America's pastime to Israelis and American Jews alike, bagel baron Larry Baras, founder of the Israel Baseball League, set out to establish professional baseball in Israel.
Around the same time, Erik Kesten and Brett Rapkin read about Baras's arduous endeavor in Murray Chass's June 2006 "New York Times" article, piquing the interest of the Jewish movie directors whose past ...