From: The Wall Street Journal on Mon, Jul 18 2011 6:30 AM

For high school baseball players from Rikuzentakata, Japan, the dream to play in the Koushien national baseball tournament came to an end. But win or lose, the game helped to bring together a community still reeling from the March 11 tsunami.

From: The Wall Street Journal on Fri, Apr 23 2010 7:38 PM

Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar planned to open a baseball training camp in the Dominican Republic for Cuban defectors in 1996. But a prison sentence put his dream on hold. Now his Warriors Baseball Academy is finally up and running. WSJ’s Christopher Rhoads reports.