Getting your player ready...
Pittsburgh Pirates farmhands Rinku Singh, right, and Dinesh Patel became the first players from India to appear in organized baseball when each pitched an inning for Bradenton (Fla.) of the Gulf Coast League on Saturday. They signed last fall after appearing on a TV reality show called “Million Dollar Arm” designed to find athletes who could throw more than 90 mph in a country where baseball is almost unknown. But Singh’s fastball topped out at 83 mph and Patel’s at 84. “Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A, then the majors,” Patel said of his anticipated career path. The Associated Press; AP photo
