That was a good read.

I’ve always wondered when baseball was going to try to get some Indian guys to pitch. It’s a long shot, but maybe the start of another source of viable baseball players.

1492: Columbus discovers the New World, mistakes inhabitants for Indians. The name sticks.

2012: An Indian takes the mound pitching for a New World baseball team named the Indians.

This has to happen.

I just read this earlier today!

It actually makes a lot of sense, at least in theory. In a region with a BILLION people, why are we not promoting baseball and seeing what talent we can harvest?

I would also like to add:

It really is a pretty fascinating read.

simply put, rec.

“I miss my family,” says Patel, who, along with Singh, learned English watching Baseball Tonight while also taking online courses. “Hopefully, when I go back home, they will be proud.”

Hopefully he wasn’t watching John Kruk too often.

Whilst I think this is a cool idea, I think MLB would be better off helping countries like this establish some sort of league, as opposed to just plundering their best players. That way you may manage to create a greater pool to choose from. Of course, I may be talking out of my arse and this is something that is already being done.

I’ve always had this fantasy that my mediocre high school baseball talent would, if I tried, translate into greatness as a cricket player (much like John Goodman in “King Ralph”). I have one less fantasy today.

Great article. Seeing how far a few thousand dollars goes in most places in the world, you can’t help but think development leagues will soon pop up in unexpected places.

Slightly OT, but I wrote a little piece a few years ago with just this situation in mind, after attending a Lake County Indians/Rome Braves game. Took me a few minutes to dig up, but here’s the link, for a short read (scroll to the bottom of the page):

Buddha Baseball

What did the shortstop do wrong???

This shows some slight similarities between the pitching/bowling movements. I wonder how well a pitcher could bowl and a bowler could pitch. All I know about the bowler is that he would have a really good slider, though it would it hit about ten feet in front of the plate.