Or should he hope that Kelly would remain in Class AAA, in which case he would be available to play shortstop for Team Israel? Kurz is president of the Israel Association of Baseball and is charged with assembling the best possible collection of baseball players for Team Israel. The informal team includes Scott Barancik in Florida with the Jewish Baseball News and Ephraim Moxson and Shel Wallman of the Jewish Sports Review. Israel baseball hews to the Israeli definition of citizenship, which is to say at least one grandparent or parent must have been a Jew. Alas, however, Ty Kelly will not be among the assembled Israeli baseball athletes.

Source: New York Times September 21, 2016 16:30 UTC