They stood along the fence in Bristol, Conn., as curious onlookers. A dozen boys from State College, Pa., whose summer had revolved around baseball practices, many of them twice a day for the previous ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — With the exception of one team, players in this year’s Little League World Series likely never heard of Danny Almonte. But the manager of the Staten Island, New York, team ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Little League pitcher Danny Almonte is no longer perfect -- because he's no longer 12. The boy who dominated the Little League World Series with his 70 mph ...

Danny Almonte was a kid who pitched a perfect game, but he played ball with a pair of imperfect adults. The result was, as they say, a no-win situation. A scrappy bunch of Bronx, N.Y., boys who ...

There's a word for people like Felipe de Jesus Almonte, but we'll just call him despicable. To lie, cheat and steal covers the three bases of the overzealous parent. To deny it all -- even in the face ...

Pitcher Danny Almonte’s falsified birth certificate, the biggest scandal in Little League history, remains a source of animosity and justification for stereotypes, with depressing repercussions still ...

In 2001, Danny Almonte threw a perfect game at the Little League World Series. It’s an accomplishment that should be celebrated by baseball fans everywhere, except for the fact that Almonte was over ...

Danny Almonte's father was charged Tuesday with falsifying a birth certificate to make his son appear to be 12 when he actually was 14 -- and thus too old for Little League. Felipe de Jesus Almonte ...

MIAMI The red band fits snugly on his right arm, just below his biceps. A one-word inscription gives Danny Almonte a message that bears repeating every day: Strength. He leans on that word whenever he ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Danny Almonte just can't act his age. Last year, he cost his Bronx team its third-place finish at the Little League World Series when it was revealed he was too old to play. And this ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — With the exception of one team, players in this year’s Little League World Series likely never heard of Danny Almonte. But the manager of South Shore remembers him vividly because ...