Sunday, August 03, 2008

The Perfect Game

A little hokey but based on a true story. Excerpt from lancevanauken.com:

Photo: Angel Macias

At an average height of four-foot-eleven, most were too small to fit into any of the uniforms provided by Little League, so the team wore their home uniforms emblazoned with "Monterrey" across the front of the jersey. They had been eating well since leaving Mexico, and they gorged on food provided by Lycoming College. In fact, before the team entered the United States two weeks earlier for tournament play, the average weight per player was eighty pounds. When the World Series games actually started, many on the Mexican team had gained ten to fifteen pounds each.

By the time the final game rolled around, the boys from Monterrey were everyone's darlings. Then Angel Macias topped all the hoopla by retiring all eighteen batters he faced -- the first and last perfect game in Little League World Series championship game history. He did not allow a single ball to leave the infield.

Entire write-up here

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