Nate Fish
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| Utility Player / Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: January 2, 1980 Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
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Nate Fish (Hebrew: נייט פיש; born January 2, 1980) is an American-Israeli writer, artist, professional baseball utility player, and coach. He is the CEO of Israel Baseball America, and manager of the Israel national baseball team. He previously managed the Savannah Bananas, an independent exhibition baseball team.
Fish played shortstop, third base, outfield, and catcher. He won three medals at the Maccabiah Games. He played for the Tel Aviv Lightning in the only year of the Israel Baseball League. He served as national director for the Israel Association of Baseball (IAB). Fish coached for the Israel national baseball team, in the 2013 and 2017 qualifiers for the World Baseball Classic, and was Team Israel's first base coach in the 2017 World Baseball Classic in South Korea and Japan. In 2017 and 2018, Fish was an assistant coach for the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox in the Cape Cod Baseball League. In 2019, he worked as a minor league coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fish was the bullpen coach for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Fish has published a number of magazine features and poems, and has had two solo exhibitions of visual art in New York City. He was inducted into the Shaker Heights High School Alumni Hall of Fame in 2016.