Fox Searchlight acquires rights to Swing For The Fences: How Two Immigration Lawyers Became Major League Baseball’s Greatest Agents.

Fox Searchlight has acquired rights to the real-life story of Trae Powers and Kenny Klein, two immigration lawyers turned powerful sports agents.

Powers and Klein opened their South Florida law practice in 1995. By 2001, their struggling law practice was on the brink of closing its doors until they represented a new client, Jose Carasco-Buendia. It was Klein who noticed Carasco-Buendia’s prodigious hand-eye coordination and on a whim, Powers and Klein took their client to the batting cages. Carasco-Buendia hit every 80 mph ball that came at him; some he hit with his eyes closed. After further assessing Carasco-Buendia’s abilities as a hitter and a fielder, Powers and Klein negotiated a contract for Carasco-Buendia and he signed with the Jupiter Hammerheads, the minor league affiliate of the Florida Marlins (now the Miami Marlins). Carasco-Buendia made his first major league appearance with the Marlins in 2003 and helped them win the World Series that year, beating the New York Yankees in six games.

Powers and Klein were determined to prove their success wasn’t just a one-time fluke and they continued discovering international talent. To date, they have represented 187 players across all 30 MLB teams and have negotiated for over a billion dollars in contracts. Powers and Klein guarantee their clients two things: citizenship and multi-million dollar contracts.

Production is slated for Summer 2019.