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Indian Pitchers Make Professional Debut

By Pat LackeyJul 6th 2009 – 12:19PM

The video posted above seems like wholly unremarkable footage from a generic Gulf Coast League game between the Pirates and Yankees affiliates. That's until you realize that the pitcher for the Pirates is Rinku Singh and the first pitch thrown in that video is in fact the first professional pitch thrown by a native of...

Pirates Sign Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, First Indian Professional Baseball Players

By Josh AlperNov 24th 2008 – 10:25PM

It's official, the Pittsburgh Pirates have gone global. They haven't signed a working agreement with those rowdy fellows in Somalia who share their nickname nor have they followed so many others into Latin America or Japan. No, the Pirates are tapping more remote outposts. They signed a South African shortstop earlier this...

International Pastime: Pitcher Is Latest American Job to Be Outsourced to India

By Tom FornelliNov 5th 2008 – 12:07PM

International Pastime looks at baseball's influence outside the U.S.In recent years we've seen quite an influx of international players in Major League Baseball, with most of the players coming from the Oriental countries of Asia. You have your Daisukes, your Ichiros, your Fukudomes, and your Wangs along with many other...

DineshPatel News From the Web

  • 05/20/12 Days Inn opens on Route 11 outside Fort Drum gate Source: Watertown Daily Times - Watertown NY About a mile south of Fort Drums main gate in LeRay, Days Inn hotel, 25940 Route 11, opened to the public Thursday.
  • 05/11/12 Hamm-ing It Up Source: Sports Business Daily DEADLINE.com's Mike Fleming reported actor JON HAMM has been tapped to "play a sports agent in ' MILLION DOLLAR ARM ,' the drama based on the true story of how sports agent J.B. BERNSTEIN discovered professional pitchers RINKU SINGH and DINESH PATEL through a reality show he st...
  • 05/10/12 Jon Hamm to star in a Dinesh and Rinku movie Source: Comcast SportsNet Mad Men star Jon Hamm has become attached to play a sports agent in Million Dollar Arm , the drama based on the true story of how sports agent J.B. Bernstein discovered professional pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel through a reality show he staged in India with cricket players.
  • 05/10/12 Casting: Green, Cassidy, Hamm, Culkin Source: Dark Horizons Logan Marshall Green ("Prometheus,""Across the Universe") is set to play playwright Tennessee Williams in Deborah Kampmeier's "Lonely Hunter" at Full Moon Films.
  • 05/09/12 Casting Roundup : Hamm, Chandler, Hemsworth, Rickman,... Source: Moviehole.net "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm is starring in a sports movie about "how sports agent J.B. Bernstein discovered professional pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel through a reality show he staged in India with cricket players."

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