How "China" Rigged the Little League World Series

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• SL

  @slappygustaverson6507 · 4 years ago

  Imagine getting cut from the team because you were packing too much shmeat

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• GA

  @garrettt.7490 · 4 years ago

  Came for a baseball video, left with a 17 minute history lesson on Taiwan

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• JA

  @jason_born4595 · 4 years ago

  If I was 12, and a DOCTOR(who probably wasn’t a very good one but still) thought I was an adult from just look at my “private parts” I’d have the BIGGEST ego boost ever

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• MI

  @michaellyons9820 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Even though it wasn't mentioned in the video, this explains the motivation of Filipino leaders to cheat their way to a Little League World Series championship in 1992.  They were tired of losing to Taiwan in the Far East Regional Tournament.  So at the end of the Philippines national tournament, they replaced many of the championship team's players with players from other teams to form a national team to compete in the Far East regional and then the World Series. But they got caught and had to forfeit the LLWS championship game to Long Beach, California.  Long Beach had a young team in 1992 and returned to Williamsport in 1993 and won the title on the field.

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• EL

  @element720 · 4 years ago

  To be honest I thought all the international teams were basically composed of the best players in the country

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• AB

  @AbsolXGuardian · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IPpx8Urshw&amp;t=668">11:08</a> Fun fact the doctor that invented the scale for judging genital development would always testify against any side in court trying to use his scale to determine age, generally in CP cases where the subject&apos;s identity was unknown. Because he created it for the diagnosis and analysis of precocious and delayed puberty. That&apos;s all it&apos;s actually good for is estimating where you are in puberty. &nbsp;Although I bet he never expected little league age requirements to be a context his scale would be misused.

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• DB

  @dburke8 · 4 years ago

  Lost 17-1 to them in ‘91. They feasted on us Canadians haha. I didn’t think they were older. But we knew about their school system.

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• BR

  @brohanfromrohan5771 · 4 years ago

  That team that ended their streak was from Kirkland, WA. I highly encourage people to watch that 30 for 30 show done on them. #20 shown in this video was one of those big kids that just dominated everybody, and he talks about his experience growing up after and how he just became average when everyone else started to catch up in size.

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• OA

  @OAOXander · 4 years ago

  Its insane that Taiwan changed so damn much just over 70 years. Though learning the dark sides of my country is quite importent. Good honest content

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• AE

  @aegisofhonor · 4 years ago

  this is a very sad story, because these were just kids doing what they were told to do and in the end, everyone lost.

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• KU

  @kurtispostma7891 · 4 years ago

  the main 2 reasons it was unfair; the fact they were trained as professional athletes for 9 hours a day (as children) gives them a big advantage, and the fact they had the ability to handpick their team from the ENTIRE country&apos;s population of 14 million vs. a regular little league&apos;s district in a state (15,000) It&apos;s like letting a football team have every 1st and 2nd round draft pick, in 5 drafts. Every year.

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• OL

  @OleSparky · 3 years ago

  Not banned for being too good, banned for violating child labor standards.

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