Pence pops up in Poland: Former Lafayette pitcher has whirlwind trip to Prague to play for Polish national baseball team

Pence pops up in Poland: Former Lafayette pitcher has whirlwind trip to Prague to play for Polish national baseball team

Prague, Czechia – Joey Pence, as a Lafayette senior in 2024, ended his baseball career — or so he thought. Then, this year, he pitched briefly in an adult league in his native New Jersey. Around that time his mother — whose parents have Polish roots — saw something on social media about the Polish national baseball team. “I posted our Polish players team photo from our Ukraine versus Eastern Europe exhibition game for peace in a Polish Facebook …