Bet Shemesh Blue Sox
| Bet Shemesh Blue Sox בית שמש בלו סוקס |
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| League | Israel Baseball League | ||
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 Bet Shemesh
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| Ballpark | Kibbutz Gezer Field | ||
| Year founded | 2006 | ||
| League championships | 1 | ||
| Colors | Blue | ||
| Manager |
 Ron Blomberg
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The Beit Shemesh Blue Sox (Hebrew: בית שמש בלו סוקס) were an Israeli baseball team from Bet Shemesh.
The Blue Sox was one of the inaugural teams in the Israel Baseball League. They had the best regular season record (29-12, .707), and won the inaugural championship August 19, 2007, in Petah Tikva, shutting out Art Shamsky’s Modi’in Miracle 3-0 in the championship game. Californian RHP Rafael Bergstrom pitched a complete game shutout, downing Dominican RHP Maximo Nelson (5-3, 3.55 ERA) who pitched for Modi’in.
On February 26, 2007, it was announced that former Major League Baseball player Ron Blomberg would be the manager of the Blue Sox. Team colors also reflect Blomberg's stint with the New York Yankees, and hopes that IBL officials had of creating a rivalry between Art Shamsky's Modi'in Miracle (similar colors to the New York Mets) and the Blue Sox.
The first player selected by the Blue Sox in the inaugural draft was Canadian right handed pitcher Jason Benson.
Located at Kibbutz Gezer, Gezer Field was home to the Blue Sox as well as the Modi'in Miracle, as neither city has a baseball stadium. However, a new field was under construction in Bet Shemesh and reportedly would have been reason for the second season in 2008, which was never played.
The Blue Sox logo is a mixture of the logos of the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees, and its letters make out the initials of the city of Bet Shemesh, written in diagonal from right to left (because the Hebrew language reads from right to left), as opposed to the White Sox which goes left to right.
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