Sentences with phrase «professional baseball talent»

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But it would also be fun to watch because it would be a prominent example of a player overcoming the inherent difficulties of professional baseball and succeeding with refined talent when raw talent just wasn't enough.

In one of the film's many far - fetched moments, somehow flipping back - and - forth between watching Susan Boyle's audition on «Britain's Got Talent» (the story is set in 2008) and a cricket match on cable TV gives JB the idea to hold a contest in India to try to find two cricket players who can be brought to America and turned into professional baseball pitchers.

One night JB finds himself flicking between coverage of India's premier cricket league and Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent when he has a lightbulb moment and concocts a scheme whereby he'll travel to India to audition youngsters with a view to securing them a professional baseball contract.

Between 1901 and 1904 he studied at the Ohio State University, where he was encouraged to become a professional baseball player because of his sporting talent.