Former MLB player Brad Ausmus has been instrumental in growing baseball in Israel, starting from a time when the country had only two baseball fields.

When Brad Ausmus first visited Israel he found just two baseball fields in the entire country, one a high school-level facility, one short of that. Efforts to grow baseball were just getting started. “The people in Israel that were integral in bringing me on board 15 years ago, the real crux of it, they are ex-patriots who moved to the United States, lived in Israel, have a real passion for ...