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It may take a while for someone to comeup with a reproduction of your sample in order to outline what may be done to achieve it....

But offhand - careful blending of the ballplayers against one another with hue and saturation. But what catches my eye is a haze enveloping the image.... which adds to the lighting effect.

And like you mentioned, the background gradient. I think it's those 2 elements - background and foreground haze - that made the image composite work.

Here's something about that misty, abstract background that may help ...... with a bit of substitution of players, it might work.....  http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/create-euphoric-abstract-haze/