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| 2012-13 Adelaide Bite Rinku Singh card front - © 2013 Adam East |
Showing posts with label Rinku Singh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rinku Singh. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Rinku Singh - 2012-13 Adelaide Bite
Reality TV star and Indian native Singh returned for his third ABL season, playing for Adelaide again during the 2012-13 season. In 2012, he was still plying his trade for the Pittsburgh Pirates organisation, having played for their A level South Atlantic League affiliate, the West Virginia Power.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Congrats to the Canberra Cavalry - 2012-13 ABL Champions
I managed to attend both the 1st game and the last three innings of the 2nd game of the 2012-13 Australian Baseball League Championship Series in Canberra over the previous 2 nights. The advantage of catching the end of the 2nd game was I got to see the Cavalry take out the championship, as well as the post game awards and festivities. Congratulations to the Canberra Cavalry on winning the Championship.
Even though I'm historically a Perth Heat supporter (since the original ABL started back in 1989), I do support the Cavalry when attending their home games. As much as previously I've been a proud wearer of my Perth Heat cap during Cavalry home games, one of the Canberra General Managers asked me who I would be supporting if it was a Canberra vs Perth final. When it's been Perth vs Canberra series, I've always gone for Perth. It was a big call, but I decided I would be supporting the Cavalry in the ABLCS ... not because I no longer supported the Heat, but because after 2 successive Championships to Perth, I thought it would be "Good For Baseball" to have the Cavalry win the ABL, rather than a Perth threepeat. The level of interest in baseball in Canberra has definitely skyrocketed with the Cavalry's success this year, and will hopefully continue to foster more kids into the game.
Now that the Cavalry have won one, I'll be more than happy for Perth to get back to winning the Championship next year ... and I'll still support the Cavalry ... unless they're playing the Heat :)
Sad to see some opposition supporters labelling the Cavalry as Team USA and complaining about all their imports. As I point out - why weren't you complaining when their imports left them in last place for the previous two seasons?
They also seem to casually ignore the fact that other ABL teams have been luring Aussie Cavalry players interstate. The Crawford brothers moved up to the Bandits, Tim Atherton went to the Blue Sox (where he joined another former Cavalry Aussie - Luke Wilkins) and that even Perth manged to get a game out of former Cavalry relief pitcher Phil Brassington. And although not an Aussie, even Adelaide are using Cavalry's original Indian import - Rinkhu Singh.It's hard to get a good core of Aussies when they get lured to the "big smoke" when they start showing some promise.
Anyway, thought I'd share a couple of photos. The first is a panorama of the storms in the background of Fort Narrabundah during Game 1 of the ABLCS.
And a couple from the post-game celebrations of Game 2. My lenses are rather slow, so not the best for night photography, but thought I'd grab a few happy snaps anyway.
Even though I'm historically a Perth Heat supporter (since the original ABL started back in 1989), I do support the Cavalry when attending their home games. As much as previously I've been a proud wearer of my Perth Heat cap during Cavalry home games, one of the Canberra General Managers asked me who I would be supporting if it was a Canberra vs Perth final. When it's been Perth vs Canberra series, I've always gone for Perth. It was a big call, but I decided I would be supporting the Cavalry in the ABLCS ... not because I no longer supported the Heat, but because after 2 successive Championships to Perth, I thought it would be "Good For Baseball" to have the Cavalry win the ABL, rather than a Perth threepeat. The level of interest in baseball in Canberra has definitely skyrocketed with the Cavalry's success this year, and will hopefully continue to foster more kids into the game.
Now that the Cavalry have won one, I'll be more than happy for Perth to get back to winning the Championship next year ... and I'll still support the Cavalry ... unless they're playing the Heat :)
Sad to see some opposition supporters labelling the Cavalry as Team USA and complaining about all their imports. As I point out - why weren't you complaining when their imports left them in last place for the previous two seasons?
They also seem to casually ignore the fact that other ABL teams have been luring Aussie Cavalry players interstate. The Crawford brothers moved up to the Bandits, Tim Atherton went to the Blue Sox (where he joined another former Cavalry Aussie - Luke Wilkins) and that even Perth manged to get a game out of former Cavalry relief pitcher Phil Brassington. And although not an Aussie, even Adelaide are using Cavalry's original Indian import - Rinkhu Singh.It's hard to get a good core of Aussies when they get lured to the "big smoke" when they start showing some promise.
Anyway, thought I'd share a couple of photos. The first is a panorama of the storms in the background of Fort Narrabundah during Game 1 of the ABLCS.
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| Fort Narrabundah - ABL Championship Series Game 1- Panorama (click image to enlarge) © 2013 Adam East |
And a couple from the post-game celebrations of Game 2. My lenses are rather slow, so not the best for night photography, but thought I'd grab a few happy snaps anyway.
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| Cavalry players pile on pitcher Sean Toler after the final out - © 2013 Adam East |
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| The Claxton Shield - © 2013 Adam East |
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| The Cavalry celebrations begin - © 2013 Adam East |
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Rinku Singh - 2010-11 Canberra Cavalry
This is the 2010-11 Canberra Cavalry card for Rinku Singh. A much better photo than his Adelaide Bite 2011-12 card in my opinion.
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| 2010-11 Canberra Cavalry Rinku Sungh card front - © 2012 Adam East |
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Rinku Singh - 2011-12 Adelaide Bite
Singh was a rarity in the ABL - a player who actually transferred between teams, having played 2010-11 for the Canberra Cavalry, he ended up playing for the Adelaide Bite in 2011-12. He already had a level of fame before coming to Australia, with the tale of his winning a reality TV Show "The Million Dollar Arm", which was based around finding a potential baseball prospect amongst the people of India. Beating out over 37,000 prospects he won the show, and was taken to try out in the US, where he was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is currently playing for the Pirates A class affiliate, the West Virginia Power, in the South Atlantic League.
Whilst not the best of photos, I couldn't help but put together a card for this son of a poor Indian Truck Driver, now a baseball prospect wearing his newly found bling (check out the gold chain around his neck) on the fields of Australian baseball.
Whilst not the best of photos, I couldn't help but put together a card for this son of a poor Indian Truck Driver, now a baseball prospect wearing his newly found bling (check out the gold chain around his neck) on the fields of Australian baseball.
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| 2011-12 Adelaide Bite Rinku Singh © 2012 Adam East |
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