JB Bernstein with Dinesh Kumar Yadav (left) and Rinku Singh (right) pic courtesy/ Anthony Phills

Q. Why did India strike you as one of the unexplored territories for baseball talent; considering that hardly any one knows what the sport is.
A. In India, there is a huge pool of untapped athletic ability. There are literally over 100 million men between the ages of 15 to 25 that all grow up playing cricket, and yet the professional opportunities to capitalise on athletic talent are few compared to countries in the West where professional sports abound. We believed that due to the similarity between cricket and baseball we would be able to convert kids with that natural ability to throw a baseball.