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Danny Almonte Rojas (born April 7, 1987) is a Dominican-American former baseball player who is currently an assistant baseball coach at Cardinal Hayes High School in New York City. Born in Moca in the Dominican Republic, Almonte was a Little League pitcher who threw up to 79 miles per hour (127 km/h).
That's right, it's Danny Almonte. In the summer of 2001, a major controversy led to the disqualification of the Bronx baseball team from the Little League World Series.
Following the conclusion of the tournament, Danny Almonte, a pitcher from the Bronx, New York, team representing the Mid-Atlantic Region, was the center of a scandal when it was discovered that he was not eligible to play in the tournament because he was two years over the maximum age limit.
The Little League World Series is an annual baseball tournament for children (primarily boys) ... In 2001, Danny Almonte, a pitcher from the Bronx, New York, ...
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 ...
Minor League and Little League. The distance between the bases is 60 feet (18.29 m) and the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate (more precisely, the midpoint of the front edge of the pitcher's rubber to the rear point of home plate) is 46 feet (14.02 m). Outfield fences must be at least 165 feet (50 m) from home plate, but are ...
Laterza, who has been coaching Little League for over 30 years, has also used his week in the spotlight to dig up a LLWS controversy from 2001 – the age scandal involving pitcher Danny Almonte.
*All games played by the New York representative, Rolando Paulino Little League, were forfeited due to the use of an ineligible player, Danny Almonte.The Mid-Atlantic Championship was retroactively awarded to the Pennsylvania representative, the State College American Little League.