![]() ![]() ![]() But over four weeks and 13 games beginning in July, they were magical. Even when they reached the Little League World Series, most of their opponents outweighed them by 35 or 40 pounds. They’d only imagined Major League games, gathering around a radio for Sunday rebroadcasts in Spanish of Brooklyn Dodgers contests (Roy Campanella, the Dodgers’ catcher had played in Monterrey in 19, enchanting their parents). The team was composed of mostly poor kids from an industrial city who’d started playing baseball only a few years earlier, clearing rocks and glass from a dirt field and playing barefoot with a homemade ball and gloves. In baseball, a game full of real and imagined fairy tales from Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World” to Bernard Malamud’s fable The Natural, no story may be more inspiring or surprising than the story of the 1957 Little League team from Monterrey, Mexico. They came to be known as “Los pequeños gigantes,” the little giants. The little league baseball team from Monterrey, Mexico became the first team from outside the United States to win the Little League World Series. ![]()
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