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From the picture of the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox hat, it looks like they're trying to use the Red Sox and White Sox idea combined with the look of a NY Yankees cap in Hebrew. Whatever sells I guess.

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All of the logos are very nice looking, however, they're the English transliterated into Hebrew. I can read Hebrew (but not write or understand it), and all of those are just the English words using Hebrew lettering. You'd think they'd use the Hebrew words for Blue Sox, Lightning, etc. I really like the Lightning Wordmark. That bolt is actually a letter.

And the biblical history of baseball is pretty humorous.

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so it looks like theyre using a blue baseball.....

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That should make the game interesting.

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so it looks like theyre using a blue baseball.....

250_Blue_IBL_Ball.jpg

That should make the game interesting.

I love the inclusion of the inaugural year: 2007-5767. :D

Oy, a BLUE ball?

I saw, I came, I left.

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so it looks like theyre using a blue baseball.....

250_Blue_IBL_Ball.jpg

That should make the game interesting.

I love the inclusion of the inaugural year: 2007-5767. :D

Oy, a BLUE ball?

Yeah, that's weird. I know it says official ball on the website, but maybe they're really just commemorative?

And, you gotta love the use of Hebrew Calendar reckoning. Awesome.

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The Israel Baseball League has announced the names of the circuit's six teams. They are...

Beit Shemesh Blue Sox

Gezer Lions

Nahariya Stingrays

Netanya Tigers

Petah Tikvah Pioneers

Tel Aviv Lightning

Much as I love the Blue Sox name, and wish one of baseball's 14 expansion teams would have chosen the name, I'm a bit disappointed in it for Beit Shamesh. So much history with that name and they choose Blue Sox? Ugh.

Also, I'm a bit surprised by the Petah Tikvah Pioneers name. I mean, it makes sense, but it carries a lot of political baggage. Makes it easy for Arab Israelis and Palestinians to choose which team to root against!

And am I alone in thinking that a blue ball is a very bad idea? Unless they've changed the color of the sky in Israel, that is, which they hadn't last I checked. What was wrong with putting blue stitching on a white ball?

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In America, baseball is known as the sport of the Jewish people.

http://www.israelbaseballleague.com/baseballinisrael/future/

Huh?!?

I'm with you.

Wha-? :blink:

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... and it ends with a quote from ... Nelson Mandela?

?Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.? -- Nelson Mandela

I saw, I came, I left.

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In America, baseball is known as the sport of the Jewish people.

http://www.israelbaseballleague.com/baseballinisrael/future/

Huh?!?

I'm with you.

Wha-? :blink:

[/professor_farnsworth]

It's simple really. After we set up our Jew-only bus line and secretly converted George W. Bush we took over baseball B)

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... and it ends with a quote from ... Nelson Mandela?

?Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.? -- Nelson Mandela

See, now that makes sense to me. Especially since they have pretentions to Grander Things through the league. Nelson Mandela is a world figure, and when you need a quote about peace and harmony you either go to him or Gandhi. :D

The "baseball is known as the sport of the Jewish people" thing is just plain goofy, though.

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... and it ends with a quote from ... Nelson Mandela?

?Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.? -- Nelson Mandela

See, now that makes sense to me. Especially since they have pretentions to Grander Things through the league. Nelson Mandela is a world figure, and when you need a quote about peace and harmony you either go to him or Gandhi. :D

The "baseball is known as the sport of the Jewish people" thing is just plain goofy, though.

Well, the return of (newly integrated) South African teams to international competition in 1994 did help to jumpstart the creation of a new national identity at the start of the post-Apartheid era.

But, yeah. It's never a good sign when a sports executive starts talking about the Importance of his team/league/game. With a little less of that kind of thing, and more concern for the bottom line and the field of play, we'd still have professional women's soccer in America.

Good a time as any to put in a plug for the graphic novel The Golem's Mighty Swing. Possibly the best baseball graphic novel of all time! ^_^

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Shocking that none of the teams went with names like the Bombers, the Attack or the Militia.....

OK that was a bad joke.... <_<

I hope it's very successful, does anyone know if they have an Israili Futbol League and if so how their attendance is???

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In America, baseball is known as the sport of the Jewish people.

http://www.israelbaseballleague.com/baseballinisrael/future/

Huh?!?

I'm with you.

Wha-? :blink:

[/professor_farnsworth]

Ummm...I thought baseball was a multi-cultural sport, not one ethnicity's.

This is what happens: first the buslines, then sports... :P

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