CARY, N.C. - Jasvir Rakkar says his father, Avtar Rakkar, is asked the question all the time:
“Why does your son play baseball?”
They expect the son of a man born in the Punjab province in India to be playing cricket or soccer.
“He gets it a lot more than I do,” said Rakkar wearing red shorts, black T-shirt and red Team Canada hat during the Canadian Pan Am team’s first workout at the USA Baseball Training Center at Thomas Brooks Park on Sunday afternoon.
Instead of being a wicket-keeper or a bowling and wearing white pants as they do in cricket, or making a corner kick in soccer, Rakkar, 24, is right-handed pitcher attempting to be the first player of Indian descent to make the majors.