FEATURE: Israel baseball's path to Olympics has makings of Hollywood

In a baseball story that parallels Jamaica's 1988 Olympic bobsled team, Israel will compete this summer in an Olympic team sport for the first time since 1976.And though Israel's baseball team might not inspire a Hollywood movie as the Jamaicans did with "Cool Runnings," Israel's team, too, had humble beginnings, success and a late plot twist.One could start in 1999 when a group of 9- and 10-year-olds competed for Israel's first national baseball team. Or in the winter of 2017-2018, when Peter Kurz, the manager of that kids' team, recruited Israel's current manager, Eric Holz, by mapping ou…READ FULL ARTICLE