Eric Holtz (born December 5, 1965) is an American former manager of the Israel national baseball team.
[3] Holtz founded and is the owner of Game On 13, a baseball and softball strength and sports conditioning and skills development training facility in Elmsford in Westchester County in New York State.
[8] He played third base and pitcher for the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox of the Israel Baseball League as a player-coach in 2007, during which time he roomed with player Nate Fish.
[1][14] The team played in the 2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool in early July 2019 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, winning all five of its games and advancing to the playoffs against Team Lithuania in the 2019 Playoff Series at the end of July 2019 for the last qualifying spot for the 2019 European Baseball Championship.
Holtz noted: "Going to Germany, a country that we wouldn’t have been allowed in 80 years ago, and not only to go there but perform there and defeat them on their own land, yeah, it was a little bit more (meaningful) once the game was over.