Jackie Tyrell never heard of Giancarlo Stanton, baseball’s $325 million man, until he met him, face-to-face, at the spring training camp of the Miami Marlins. Aaron Kernan impressed at Premier League Club, Sunderland while David Bentley felt right at home with Crossmaglen Rangers .
In the first programme in this two-part series, Tipperary hurler Brendan Maher leaves his club Borris-Ileigh for the Adelaide Strikers and the professional sport of cricket, while former England cricketer Steve Harmison tries his hand at hurling.
The sporting experiment concludes as Gaelic footballer Aidan O'Shea samples life in the NFL, while former Miami Dolphins star Roberto Wallace takes his place on the Breaffy team.
Donegal footballer Michael Murphy leaves his club Glenswilly for France and Clermont Auvergne to try rugby with the Top 14 team, while former Welsh Rugby international Shane Williams tries his hand at Gaelic football.
In this second part Wexford Hurler, Lee Chin flew to Canada to join the Vancouver Canucks – an ice hockey team in the National Hockey League while retired goaltender Alex Auld, who spent 12 years as a professional in the NHL aimed to transfer those skills when he swapped the ice for the ash as at Chin’s club the Faythe Harriers.
