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Sunday, August 26, 2007
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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Posted: August 26, 2007 at 08:47 PM | 12 comment(s)
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1. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot(snaps open Coke Zero, Zens out on the latest Cotton Jones Basket Ride cuts...calms down)
There can never be enough stories on the 2003 Marlins.
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.
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)
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...
Well, this settles the issue from the other thread: you never used PEDs.
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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