THE bright lights of Major League Baseball remain firmly on pitcher Travis Blackley's radar but it's what he can do for Australia which matters most right now. 
Free agent Blackley, 33, (pictured) will spearhead Australia's bid on Sunday to return to the World Baseball Classic through the Sydney qualifying tournament at Blacktown International Sportspark.
It follows his cool performances throughout the Brisbane Bandits' championship season "I like having the coaches and the guys behind me believing that I should be the guy doing it and I take that heavy," Blackley said. "I'm not going to go out there lightly, I'm going to be giving it all I got like I do every game.
"I never want to go out there and just give it my half effort, I always have the pride to give it my best and let the chips fall where they may." His baseball resume is one of a jersey collector - five Major League clubs from Seattle to San Francisco, back to San Francisco - via short seasons in Korea and Melbourne - and then to Oakland, Houston and Texas.
Few ever get to Major League Baseball once, let alone twice and three times.But it's a sense of "unfinished business" that is driving Blackley's latest incarnation.