Holy Land Hardball

Sun 9 Aug, 7:30 pm. P. O. Box 692, Center Street, Vineyard Haven, 02568. Ronald Tolin, Executive Director, 508-693-0745. Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center - [email][events]

Introduced by Nysselle Clark of The Boston Jewish Film Festival. After 5767 years, is Israel ready for baseball? Bostonian Larry Baras thinks so, certain that if he builds it, they will come. Documenting the formation of Israel¹s first professional baseball league from tryouts to the selection of 120 hardball hopefuls to the scheduled first game in June 2007, the film is marvelously entertaining from the first pitch through the bottom of the ninth. Features a number of figures well-known to Red Sox Nation, including Dan Duquette, the league¹s director of baseball operations and former Red Sox GM and Kevin Youkilis, one of the few Jewish major league players.