Topic: India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Young men all over India are flexing their muscles in the hope that a strong arm will carry them into a money-spinning career in professional baseball in the United States.Despite the lack of a baseball tradition in India, ...
The Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished with the worst record in Major League Baseball last season, have given up on one of India's "Million-Dollar Arm" winners and two Taiwan prospects.The Pirates announced Wednesday that they were releasing right-handed pitcher Dinesh Patel, the India ...
Armando Galarraga, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers baseball team, became a victim of a blown call by umpire Jim Joyce, resulting in a lifetime opportunity being ripped from his clutches (Photo source: Not only did the error in judgment cost Galarraga a ...
All it took was striking out the only batter he faced, but the feat was enough for India-born Rinku Singh to claim his first US professional baseball victory on Monday.Singh was the winning pitcher of record for the Bradenton Pirates in a ...
India-born Pittsburgh Pirates farmhand gets first win in Gulf Coast LeaguePittsburgh Pirates farmhand and reality show contestant Rinku Singh earned his first win Monday in the second game of a Gulf Coast League doubleheader.Singh struck out the only batter he faced in ...
Former aspiring cricket players make pro baseball debuts after winning Indian reality showTwo former aspiring cricket players who won a reality show in India have made their professional baseball debuts.Left-hander Rinku Singh and right-hander Dinesh Patel, neither of whom had heard of ...
The people of Chicago, that stormy, husky, brawling kind of town, sure know how to tie on the feed bag. For better or worse, it was Chicago that transformed the Midwest's vast bounty of grains, livestock and dairy foods into Kraft cheese, ...
Two days after the Super bowl (i.e. Expected are Carlos Beltran, who apparently plays for the Mets; Johnny Damon of the Yankees (hey, we have heard of that guy! Karole was the first toand Im not a dance criticto take the classical ...
Bush family's 18-year-old cat India dies, was named for baseball playerThe first family leaving the White House this month will be without one of its longtime members: the Bush family's 18-year-old cat has died.The first lady's office said Monday that India, a ...
Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, who grew up playing cricket in India and had never held a baseball until April, have signed a landmark deal with Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates.Singh, 20, and Patel, 19, inked free agent contracts Monday to become ...
