Kieran Powell has had an enviable life as a professional cricket player. He has traveled the world playing a challenging game in balmy weather, while earning a lot of recognition and good money.
But Powell, a star batsman who has played internationally for the West Indies, has chucked that all aside, for now at least, in a long-shot gamble to become a professional baseball player.
A year ago, Powell did not even own a baseball glove and had never played in an organized game. But last summer, fueled by a dream, he bought his first glove, at a California sporting goods store, and began a baseball immersion program that he hopes will vault him into the big leagues, doing something no other professional cricketer has apparently ever done.