Million Dollar Arm Chapter Summary

Million Dollar Arm by J.B. Bernstein. The genre is non-fiction. J.B. not only is the author but one of the main characters in the book. J.B. is a sports agent, he has represented some of the biggest clients in the sports industry including Barry Bonds and other great athletes. One he was looking for something different he was watching TV at three in the morning when he was flipping channels and saw a cricket game being played in India the speed that the players were throwing the ball was in the high eighties. That sparked an idea to go to India and look for the next best MlB pitcher. This could ruin his career but this also could make him a star.

Million Dollar Arm is located in India and the United States.While J.B. was searching for the next best baseball player it became more more apparent that it was going to be harder than he thought, one time at tryouts in India a boy throw the ball so far off out of the pitching cage it hit one of J.B.'s assistentes. So far J.B. hadn't found anyone that could throw over eighty-five miles per hour.

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searched through the untold athletes of of India at a competition in New Delhi a pair of best friends named Dinesh Kumar Patel and Rinku Singh. They were the only competitors who could throw over eighty-five miles per hour. There were a couple other competitors but mainly only Rinku and Dinesh who actually had a chance at winning the finals. This is how the finals work, Whoever could throw the most strikes over 85 miles per hour in 20 pitches would win. 21 competitors have gone already and none had even throughout 1 strike. Rinku who was on the mound and only had four pitches left. Then he threw a strike at 87 miles per hour. The last three competitors went but none through any strikes Rinku had won the finals. JB decided to bring Rinku and Dinesh back to the US for MLB training even though Dennis didn't throw any strikes he still had potential

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Once JB and the boys were in the US they started training at the USC Trojans baseball facility where they trained for six months. The day of the MLB tryouts had to come and it was Rinku and Dinesh chance to make it to the big leagues they both did great, they got signed to the Pennsylvania Pirates they started in the minor and they pitched for one season then Danish went back to India and Rinku kept trying to make it to the big leagues. even though they didn't make it to the MLB they still got very close and his mission was a success she's to be very selfish but once he had taken care of these boys for six months he became Self/less now he wasn't the bachelor he used to be he was a new man looking for something different.

Million Dollar Arm was very inspiring to me because it made me feel like anything is possible. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend because it was a little too mature than I would have liked. This book was a good book but a little challenging to read. The message I got from this book is you can do anything you put your heart too. The book was written really well and I loved how it was a narrative of the journey of JB Bernstein.