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Except it's not in Detroit. It's in Calcutta (which goes by Kolkata now locally), where two Americans are trying to teach baseball to children in the Bengal area of India.
There's actually video available at this site, but I believe you have to be a paid subscriber and I'm guessing that the motivation to pay to watch that is not high.
One of the coaches, Jeff Brueggemann (ahh, now there's a surname that I can empathize with), is described in some accounts as a former Minnesota Twins pitcher, although he is actually just a former Twins minor league pitcher. But I don't think it's easy to find a copy of "Total Baseball" in India.
In this account, Brueggemann alludes to everyone's hero, David Eckstein.
"Indians have a good hand-eye coordination, are intelligent. All this because they play cricket. These are the qualities one needs to play baseball," Brueggemann says. "Baseball is a very simple game played by simple people. Last year, the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the MLB World Series was a 5'7" 150 pounds guy, the shortest player in the series."
Emphasis mine.
For the record, I do not share the same aversion to David Eckstein as my loyal reader(s) do(es).
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Does that qualify me as your loyal reader? That, and the part where I did the first eight rounds of the draft?
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