Mark David Gilbert (born August 22, 1956) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball, who served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2015 to 2017.Gilbert played for the Chicago White Sox in 1985. Subsequently, he had a career as an investment banker.In 2013, United States President Barack Obama nominated Gilbert to be United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. The U.S. Senate confirmed Gilbert on December 12, 2014.Gilbert is Jewish, and was born to a Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia. He was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his younger brother and sister until 1973, when they moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, where his father and grandfather owned a furniture store. His father Herbert had played professional baseball as an infielder with the Chicago White Sox organization (reaching Triple A), and his grandfather Joseph Gilbert had played semi-pro baseball as a pitcher and been offered a pro baseball contract with the 1919 Philadelphia Athletics. Wikipedia
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