Top hurlers could make it in baseball, says Brian Schneider

Star hurlers could make it in the big money world of baseball — that’s the opinion of one of the US sport’s top former players.

Brian Schneider played Major League Baseball for 13 years and he is in Ireland as part of a novel experiment.

On Tuesday night he played his first challenge match for his adopted club James Stephens against St Patrick’s Ballyragget. At the same time Kilkenny’s Jackie Tyrrell was trying his hand at baseball with the Miami Marlins.