About Team Israel:

Team Israel will have as many as 28 players in total plus some of the top local talents of the next generation for the training camp and exhibition games. The roster is ripe with players known to baseball fans in the United States; there are eight players with previous Major League Baseball experience plus several current minor league players. 

Team Israel will compete in baseball at the Olympic Games for the first time. It is the first team to represent Israel at the Olympic Games since 1976 when Israel’s national soccer team played in Montreal. The six-team Olympic Baseball Tournament will run from July 28 through August 7.

Learn more about Team Israel by visiting teamisraelbaseball.com. 

About Bethesda Big Train

Founded in 1999, the Bethesda Big Train is a member of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, an amateur summer wooden bat baseball league in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Region. The club was named in honor of Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson, whose nickname was The Big Train.