It’s never hard for anyone to imagine Ireland’s green fields. But there is a little known phenomenon taking off in a few of those fields — baseball, the ultimate American pastime.

In a country where the leather ball is always round and the sliotar (used in hurling) is a well-known word for ball, it is hard to imagine an Irish baseball team. Yet there is one, and they are the subject of a new movie which is set to premiere in New York in January. The Emerald Diamond will be a 90-minute documentary about baseball in Ireland.

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