Ukraine's Empty Fields of Baseball Dreams

The budding sport, nurtured by Americans, is just another casualty of Russia’s brutal invasion.

Mar 31, 2022

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Nowhere do dreams fly higher than in Spring Training, before the reality of a long, grueling baseball season sets in. And so it is in spades with Basil Tarasko, one of a small group of Americans who’ve long been nurturing baseball in Ukraine.

Building interest in the game was always an uphill climb, of course, in a na…

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