Dinesh Patel

Dinesh Patel
Pitcher
Born: (1989-05-08) 8 May 1989 (age 35)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bats: Right
Throws: Right

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.[1]

  1. ^ Vercammen, Paul (11 December 2008). "Indian pitchers are first for America's national pastime". CNN. Retrieved 9 April 2012.