during the 2004 summer olympics held in athens, greece, kingsbury, who has a greek grandmother, was given the chance to play for the host nation, greece. most of the players on the greek baseball team were americans with greek heritage, including north florida coach dusty rhodes, and white sox scout john kazanas, clay bellinger of the orioles, outfielders nick markakis the orioles and nick theodorou of the dodgers, and catchers mike tonis of royals and george kottaras of the padres.