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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.
Singh was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates organisation after he won a pitching contest on a 2008 reality television show The Million Dollar Arm. He was the first Indian to play professional baseball and spent several seasons in the minor leagues, reaching the Single-A level. [4] He is the subject of the movie Million Dollar Arm.
Million Dollar Arm is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show ...
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House served as pitching coach for the USC Trojans from 2008-2011, when he retired from coaching. [7] In 2008, House worked as a consultant and pitching coach for the reality program The Million Dollar Arm. In this capacity, he trained two young Indian prospects, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel over a period of seven months.
Once the impenetrable ace of a perennial contender, Buehler is a different pitcher now. Arm injuries robbed him of the better part of three seasons and chipped away at his once unshakable ...
Bernstein set up an Indian reality TV contest called The Million Dollar Arm [2] which was aired on Zee Sports (Now, TEN Action). [3] The winner received a prize of $100,000 [2] with an opportunity to win $1 million United States dollars [3] in a bonus round afterward.