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J.B. Bernstein (born February 5, 1968) is the CEO of Access Group, an athlete management firm and chief marketing officer of Seven Figures Management, a sports marketing and athlete representation firm.
- Did Most People Doubt That "The Million Dollar Arm" Reality Show Would Work?
- How Many Indian Hopefuls Tried Out For "The Million Dollar Arm" Contest?
- What Was The Monetary Prize For Winning The Contest?
- What Were The Rules of "The Million Dollar Arm" Contest?
- How Did Winner Rinku Singh Find Out About "The Million Dollar Arm" Contest?
- Were The 2008 "Million Dollar Arm" Winners Really Not Former Cricket Players?
- Is Bill Paxton's Character, Tom House, Based on A Real-Life Pitching Coach?
- Did Rinku and Dinesh Really Stay in Bernstein's House?
- Is Lake Bell's Character, Brenda, Based on Bernstein's Real-Life Wife?
- Was J.B.'s Love Interest, Brenda, Really A Doctor?
Yes. Like in the movie, the Million Dollar Arm true story confirms that most of the people around J.B. Bernstein and his two business partners at the time believed that the idea to use a TV reality show to recruit baseball players from India was absurd. "Right up until the day [Singh and Patel] got signed, everybody thought I was the dumbest guy in...
Around 38,000 potential baseball players showed up for the 2008 "Million Dollar Arm" contest and a shot at the American big leagues. The majority of the Indian citizens who tried out were awful. -NYPost.com
Not only was "The Million Dollar Arm" contest winner awarded a trip to America for a Major League Baseball tryout, there was also a monetary prize of $100,000 and a bonus chance to win $1 million (contest winner Rinku Singh didn't win the million). -NYPost.com
Combing the land from Mumbai to Delhi, "The Million Dollar Arm" TV reality contest awarded a prize of $100,000 plus a Major League Baseball tryout to the pitcher who could throw the most strikes over 85 mph out of 20 total pitches. The winner could take home $1 million if he could throw three consecutive strikes that were at least 90 mph. -MLB.com
Rinku, a former junior national javelin medalist, was alerted to the reality TV show contest by Sports Authority of India's athletics coach Jasvinder Singh Bhatia, who encouraged him to take the risk. Bhatia knew that if Rinku won, it would solve his family's financial worries. Rinku had been just a few days away from taking his class X exams at Sp...
Yes. Despite J.B. Bernstein's intentions of recruiting cricket bowlers (pitchers), both Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel had much more experience with javelin throwing than cricket. Rinku Singh was a former junior national javelin medalist and had only played cricket as a child. Patel had thrown javelin at school and won a gold medal in javelin throwin...
Yes, as indicated in the photos at the top of the page, Tom House, who is portrayed by Bill Paxton in the movie, is a real-life USC pitching coach/guru who has trained pitchers such as Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson. Like in the movie, House worked with Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel in Los Angeles, where they received formal training on the mound in p...
Not exactly. The Million Dollar Arm true story revealed that the real J.B. Bernstein owned a condo in Los Angeles. However, Rinku, Dinesh and Deepesh did not stay at Bernstein's condo. "We rented a house a couple of blocks away from the USC campus," says Bernstein, "and myself, Rinku, Dinesh and Deepesh all stayed there." -FilmJournal.com
Yes. Around the time of the events in the Million Dollar Arm movie, J.B. Bernstein met and fell in love with his now-wife, Brenda, whose former name was Brenda Paauwe-Navori. "Having Rinku and Dinesh in my life, and Brenda, changed me fundamentally as a person — from this agent who thought myopically about business," Bernstein says. "...you realize...
No. Brenda Paauwe-Navori was an aviation industry executive, not a doctor. At the time, she was the director of commercial aircraft sales and operator relations for Virgin Charter. She has since moved on and currently holds the position of division sales director for Embraer Executive Jets.
The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition. The film stars Jon Hamm as J. B. Bernstein, Bill Paxton as pitching coach Tom House, Suraj Sharma as Singh, Madhur Mittal as Patel, and Alan Arkin.
Apr 14, 2017 · Bernstein looked at India and saw the marketing opportunity of a billion new potential customers for baseball. What was needed was a compelling idea to capture the country’s imagination. The Million Dollar Arm contest, with its feel-good message about realizing your potential, did just that, he says.
1,222 Followers, 383 Following, 1,351 Posts - J.B. Bernstein (@jb_milliondollararm) on Instagram: "Sports agent, Author, Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneur & Subject of Disney's Million Dollar Arm movie".
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Apr 2, 2020 · Well, Hamm didn’t end up playing a ballplayer, but he was very much athlete-adjacent with his role in the 2014 film, “Million Dollar Arm.” Hamm played J.B. Bernstein, a struggling sports...
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Biography. Professor Joseph B. Bernstein specializes in several areas of nano-scale micro-electronic device reliability and physics of failure research including packaging, system reliability modeling, gate oxide integrity, radiation effects, Flash NAND and NOR memory, SRAM and DRAM, MEMS and laser programmable metal interconnect.
