He assistant-coaches the high school team at Cardinal Hayes and plays a little ball around the boroughs on the weekends. Danny Almonte is 13 summers removed from becoming the biggest sensation — and then pariah — the Little League World Series has ever seen.
Almonte was the flame-throwing lefty star of the Rolando Paulino Little League team from The Bronx that made an astonishing run to the US championship game in Williamsport in His helpless opponents were 11 or 12; he was In his telling, the villain of the whole story is Paulino, a taskmaster he moved in with when he immigrated from the Dominican Republic at the real age of With a fastball that ticked as high as 75 miles per hour, Almonte threw a perfect game in his LLWS debut with 16 strikeouts in six innings.
We know that now, but back in , his birth year was listed as He moved to the US in and began playing little league baseball. Four days late, in the Round Robin Tournament he pitched a perfect game, the first since , and while his team did not go on to win the Series, he was made a national star. Nothing was found by them, calling into question the talents of those investigators, but eventually, journalists from Sports Illustrated traveled to Moca to view the original birth certificate.
They found the truth, that he was born in , making him 14 at the time of the LLWS. Danny knew what age he was. He knew that his teammates were not the same age as him, but it is obvious that he was under the thumb of his father and coach. Danny Almonte speaks about life after the Little League age scandal. More FTW. From The Web.
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However, Little League and Dominican officials maintained that they were certain Almonte was born in , which would have kept him eligible. Consequently, the Baby Bombers were stripped of their victories and their records were purged from the tournament books. Little League and sub-varsity high school baseball are full of players who look like prospects but never pan out.
Late in that season, he made the surprising revelation that he had married a year-old woman the previous spring.
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