Paul Diamante is a famed baseball pitcher in Gotham City.
History[]
Paul first appears at a gathering at Wayne Manor with his fellow players, where he demonstrates his perfect pitch to Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Harriet Cooper, just as Alfred enters the lounge to quietly inform Bruce about the Batphone, and Bruce thanked Paul and the players for coming and told them that he has "an impatient date waiting", and Paul tells him that he and his friends were just leaving and thanked Aunt Harriet for dinner.
During Mr. Freeze's crime spree, Paul was kidnapped offscreen by Freeze's thugs at his apartment, just before the start of the baseball game at Gotham Stadium, and Freeze left a ransom note saying, "You will soon hear my demands" along with an icicle. Later at Commissioner Gordon's office, Gordon and Chief O'Hara showed Batman and Robin the ransom note and informed them of Paul's abduction, just as Freeze rang on Gordon's telephone, informing them that he will release Paul in exchange for Batman.
After heeding Freeze's demands, Batman arrives at Gotham Park, where Freeze's goons arrive in their helicopter with Paul, and dropped him off on a bench before bundling Batman into the copter. After the copter left, Robin, after secretly planted a homing device on Batman, arrived and checked on Paul before racing off after the copter.
Paul was later found by the police, and later attends a reception at Wayne Manor for him and Princess Sandra after Freeze's defeat.