[DOWNLOAD] "Pitching In the Promised Land" by Aaron Pribble * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Pitching In the Promised Land
- Author : Aaron Pribble
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Baseball,Books,Sports & Outdoors,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 8658 KB
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.