The Danny Almonte-Little League age scandal

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Danny Almonte, the star pitcher of a Little League team from the Bronx, N.Y., pitched his squad into the Little League World Series, where he threw a perfect game. However, his team, the Rolando Paulino All-Stars, was stripped of its district, state and region titles and of its third-place finish at the Series and remained in Little League on a probationary basis after it was proven that Almonte was actually 14, two years older than the LL age limit. Sports has had many more harmful scandals, but none ever damaged the myth of the Innocent Young Sportsman worse than this.