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2002 'NEXT:' DANNY ALMONTE IS THE NEXT DETOUR

By Dan Le Batard

Monday, October 13, 2008

So much got lost in the translation. Danny Almonte was untouched by the stench, like a rose growing implausibly in a sewer. American shame and outrage swirled noisily around him after his baseball triumph had been exposed as fraud, but Danny didn't understand the commotion, and still doesn't. He is a painfully shy kid, staring at the floor a lot, but when asked about his recent experiences with Little League Baseball Incorporated, he lifts his head, smiles and says in Spanish, "It was so much ...

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