Baseball Darwinism Big in Little League
Danny Almonte's rise to the heights of ...Little League and his torpedo-like descent could have only happened in ...New York, NY. These Bronx Bombers have been tuned into their TV sets the last two Octobers and stayed up late to watch the Yankees look like men among boys while whitewashing the Braves, Padres and Mets in successive seasons. They figured they, too, could achieve that kind of success. After all, they didn't have the hassles of education and curfews to deal with. It's not like Almonte would be too tired to go to school the next day because he didn't attend school. No, his sole purpose of being in New York was to help win for the Bronx and Rolando Paulino the long-coveted Little League World Series that they had worked and sacrificed so much for.