Profile details
- Born
- 8 May 1989
- Birthplace
- Lucknow
- State listed
- Uttar Pradesh
- Country
- India
- Plays
- Right-handed
- Position
- pitcher
- Sport
- Baseball
- Discipline
- Team
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
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Honours & Awards
- No recorded honours or awards.
Statistics
About
Dinesh Kumar Patel (born 8 May 1989) is an Indian right-handed baseball pitcher who played in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Along with Rinku Singh, he was the first Indian player ever to sign a contract with a major American baseball team. Neither Patel nor Singh had ever thrown a baseball before beating over 37,000 competitors in The Million Dollar Arm, an Indian reality television show designed to find new baseball talent.
Biography adapted from Dinesh Patel on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Snapshot taken — where the text describes a role or a club in the present tense, read it as of that date.
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