Inspire 21 Inspiring Words for the 21st Century
In 1957, Mexico’s scrawny players overcame the odds to become the first foreign team to win the Little League World Series
-- By Jim Morrison - Smithsonian.com, April 06, 2010
They came to be known as “Los pequeños gigantes,” the little giants.
In baseball, a game full of real and imagined fairy tales from Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World” to Bernard Malamud’s fable The Natural, no story may be more inspiring or surprising than the story of the 1957 Little League team from Monterrey, Mexico.
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