Angel Macias, ambidextrous pitcher - threw a perfect game in the 1957 Little League World Series Angel Macias, an ambidextrous pitcher from Mexico, threw a perfect game in the 1957 Little League World Series. Macias set down all 18 batters, in six innings, from the Northern La Mesa Little League to win the Little League World Series. 1957 Little League World Series Newsreel Stock Footage The Perfect Game Movie TIME Magazine, Monday, Sept. 02, 1957 Ambidextrous Angel By the time they got to Williamsport, Pa. last week, the barnstorming little ballplayers from Monterrey, Mexico were just about worn out. They had beaten their way across country for a month, had played and won eleven games from Texas to Kentucky. Coach César Faz called on his best pitcher, ambidextrous Angel Macias, a twelve-year-old 88-pounder with a fine assortment of curves and sliders, plus a plain, old-fashioned fast ball under discipline...
You always learn something from a Pat Venditte interview. His pitching is minor league, but his perspective is world class.
ReplyDeleteA few days ago, on Aug. 10, 2014, he lost the game and the Scranton Times-Tribune got some quotes that you never hear from typical pitchers.
“You can’t throw sliders that don’t break,” Venditte seethed. “Tonight wasn’t bad luck. It was poor execution. There was nothing more to it than that.”
"I was in the position I wanted to be in. Then 0-1, to hang a slider, that’s all there is to it. Bad execution on my part.”
There's no money in talk like that--only great baseball.