The New York Times reports that the Dominican Republic has confirmed suspicions that pitcher Danny Almonte was 14 — not 12 — when he pitched in the Little League World Series. It also turns out that Almonte is in the country illegally, since his visa expired six months ago (on that count, though, I’ll side with great pitching over the INS any day of the week).
Almonte also apparently had plenty of time to practice. Although his biography claimed he was enrolled in a South Bronx school, the school in question has no record of him ever enrolling there.