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1957 Little League team has perfect story to tell - LA Daily News

The game that changed Little League forever…

Fifty years ago, a group of 11- and 12-year-old baseball players from Monterrey, Mexico, made a trek through a desert, not unlike this, for a game. A single game. They walked, single-file, in thick, cotton uniforms in the August heat, 12 miles across the desert between the bus stop in Reynosa, Mexico, to the border town of McAllen, Texas, all for what they thought would only be one game. As fate would have it, and yes, fate is just about the only word that seems appropriate here, those 12 miles were only the start of their miraculous journey. One game turned into two, two turned into three and when it was all over, the “Little Giants” from Monterrey, Mexico, had become the first foreign team to win the Little League World Series.

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1. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 26, 2007 at 07:56 PM (#2500210)

And that's when those hordes of illegal aliens began. If only Lou Dobbs had been there to alert his posses.

2. Repoz

Posted: August 26, 2007 at 08:12 PM (#2500219)

IF THEY EVER DO A STORY ON THE 1966 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES WHERE I WAS AN ALTERNATE FOR THE JERSEY TEAM...THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!

(snaps open Coke Zero, Zens out on the latest Cotton Jones Basket Ride cuts...calms down)

3. Sawney Snows Posted: August 26, 2007 at 08:21 PM (#2500226)

One game turned into two, two turned into three and when it was all over

There can never be enough stories on the 2003 Marlins.

4. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 26, 2007 at 08:55 PM (#2500265)

As a complete aside, I wonder how many people make fantasized claims about having played in the Little League World Series, compared to similar fictional boasts about having played "minor league baseball." I know one guy who claims he played on Schenectady's LL Champs in 1954, despite all evidence to the contrary. And who knows about Roger the Jersey alternate? (smile)

5. Justin T contains indigenous nudity Posted: August 26, 2007 at 09:08 PM (#2500275)

If you're starving for glory and have to invent your own, I think claiming to have played is the LLWS is a really pathetic choice. It may be a wise choice, since it is something more difficult to check up on, however. But while I am sure I would be proud of it if I had played in a LLWS, I can't say that as a non-participant I have even the slightest envy of those kids. I'd claim to have played linebacker at USC long before I would claim to have played in a LLWS.

Which reminds me of the time when I was 17 and told some girls I met while camping that I had signed a letter of intent to play tight end there. That was a good weekend.

6. Repoz

Posted: August 26, 2007 at 09:17 PM (#2500286)

Andy, I'd like to say that I have a uniform to prove it...BUT LOWLIFE ALTERNATES WEREN'T GIVEN UNIS!

Even tho you are long dead Coach Sabatini...I still hate your nepotistic ways.

(whew...good thing I'm not a live-in-the-past bitter person)

7. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 26, 2007 at 10:17 PM (#2500320)

Rog, it doesn't matter to me if you knocked off your brother to become an alternate and then buried your coach in the Meadowlands, you still make the Primey World Series every year. Even if I have to Wiki every other f*ck*ng intro you write.

8. cercopithecus aethiops Posted: August 26, 2007 at 11:17 PM (#2500363)

I wonder how many people make fantasized claims about having played in the Little League World Series, compared to similar fictional boasts about having played "minor league baseball."

For the record, I never played in the LLWS. I never played on a LL all-star team. The youth baseball program where I grew up wasn't an official little league affiliate, so that settled that.

But let me tell you about that interception for Notre Dame...

9. Shredder Posted: August 27, 2007 at 12:19 AM (#2500456)

My all-star team lasted all of three games at the district level. After winning our first game in extra innings, we lost our second game 18-0 (pre Mercy Rule). We were a little shell-shocked going into the third game.

10. robinred

Posted: August 27, 2007 at 12:23 AM (#2500467)

I never played on a LL all-star team.

Well, this settles the issue from the other thread: you never used PEDs.

11. Lassus: Posted: August 27, 2007 at 12:32 AM (#2500490)

Is the the right thread to express how the Little League World series is absolutely my least-favorite televised sporting event in the history of everything? It takes every last ounce of fun out of baseball for me to watch a little league game treated this way.

12. Jeff K. Posted: August 27, 2007 at 01:51 AM (#2500550)

As a complete aside, I wonder how many people make fantasized claims about having played in the Little League World Series, compared to similar fictional boasts about having played "minor league baseball."\

I bartended with a guy who claimed that he was the kicker for UT for a few years in the early 90s. Even as a not really big UT fan before I decided to go here, I knew all the UT kickers, and I knew this guy wasn't one of them. Yet it worked with women. Time after time, even in the age of the internet (this was about 2002.) I never did call him on it, because it wasn't impinging on me in any way.

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