Mumbai: Major League Baseball and Disney Star’s docuseries ‘Indian Baseball Dreams’ will premiere nationwide on Disney+ Hotstar on November 4, 2023, and will be free to stream for all audiences. This follows a successful launch on Star Sports Select 1 & Star Sports Select 2 on October 18, 2023.
Major League Baseball and Disney Star have collaborated with IMG and Amped Pictures to produce ‘Indian Baseball Dreams’, a docuseries that tells the story of first-generation Indian American Arjun Nimmala. Nimmala was drafted in the first round of the MLB amateur draft in July by the Toronto Blue Jays, making history as the first-ever first-generation Indian American to be drafted at such a high position across any of the four major U.S. professional sports.
The four-part documentary follows Nimmala’s journey to explore his roots in his parents’ hometown of Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) and to uncover India’s sporting culture. Throughout the docuseries, Arjun meets India’s budding baseball talents whose stories are also featured. The docu-series features Indian Cricket Icon, Ajinkya Rahane, as he plays a round of cricket with Nimmala. It also features Dinesh Patel, the talent that was discovered through MLB’s ‘Million Dollar Arm’ initiative in India back in 2011.
