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Indian Pitchers Make Professional Debut

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

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

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...