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‘The Perfect Game’ Proves That Baseball Fiction is Duller Than Truth

Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 19, 2010 - 1:43pm

Rating: 2.0/5.0

CHICAGO – The 1957 Little League team from Monterrey, Mexico, was the first non-U.S. team to win that league’s World Series. That is a fact. “The Perfect Game” creates a story based on that fact that is as improbable as a team from Mars winning the big game.

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