NEW YORK — It has been more than two decades since Rolando Paulino became both the hero and pariah of youth baseball, in short order. Now 59 years old, he has lost much of the weight and color in his ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — With the exception of one team, players in this year’s Little League World Series likely never heard of Danny Almonte. But the manager of the Staten Island, New York, team ...

Danny Almonte. Jackie Robinson West. Now Tulsa National Softball. Little League faces another scandal it can’t seem to outrun. The Southwest Region has tainted the Little League Softball World Series ...

Danny Almonte, the hard-throwing, 5-foot-8 left-handed pitcher from the Bronx, N.Y., has been deemed too old to compete in Little League Baseball, resulting in his team's forfeiture of all its ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Danny Almonte's father was charged Tuesday with falsifying a birth certificate to make his son appear to be 12 when he actually was 14 -- and thus too old for ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Little League pitcher Danny Almonte is no longer perfect -- because he's no longer 12. The boy who dominated the Little League World Series with his 70 mph ...

MIAMI The red band fits snugly on his right arm, just below his biceps. A one-word inscription gives Danny Almonte a message that bears repeating every day: Strength. He leans on that word whenever he ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — With the exception of one team, players in this year’s Little League World Series likely never heard of Danny Almonte. But the manager of South Shore remembers him vividly because ...

It is an admirable passion and an asset to an underserved community. But Paulino’s history will forever leave him a polarizing figure, both outside and inside the youth baseball community. Pitcher ...