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Baseball makes a home run in Manipur
Published on Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 15:56, Updated on Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 16:05 in 
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Imphal: Cricket makes big news in Pakistan and India but for the northeastern state of Manipur, baseball is the big game and it may be serving a bigger purpose.
It’s a home run that's crossing continents like never before. In Imphal more people are now beginning to believe that it is the best game you can play with bat and ball.
Imphal has over 20 baseball clubs, and could soon have the country's first baseball stadium, First Pitch, the US Manipur Baseball project set up here five years back.
"The number of baseball players has grown in such a short period. It should be somewhere around 500-600, not just Imphal but across Manipur,” says US-Manipur Project, Geet Singh.
The project started off with eight torn gloves and a couple of used bats and balls. But now First Pitch gets top American baseball coaches and major league players to pass on tips to young players.
"My dream is to take Manipuri players to play in Major League Baseball in New York. I will go all out for that,” says coach, First Pitch, Bhanu Devi.
So America's baseball theme has found a new voice in one of the most unlikely of places in Manipur through the 20 baseball teams who are slowly but surely building bridges between the two nations.
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