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Danny Almonte update
Topic Started: May 16 2005, 05:12 PM (41 Views)
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Now 17 and living in Miami, Danny Almonte still can't escape stigma of scandal

By George Diaz
Orlando Sentinel
Posted May 16 2005, 11:49 AM EDT


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 misses his mom, whom he has not seen in more than five years. The word bears significance every time he steps on the mound and hears a voice screaming trampso! (cheater!). Or maybe when a new teammate looks at him funny, remembering that the kid ranks No. 5 on ESPN's List of Worst Sports Scandals, sandwiched between the Salt Lake City Olympic bribe shenanigans and Ben Johnson's steroid-juiced run in the 100 meters in the 1988 Olympics.

It's been almost four years since Almonte stepped into sports infamy. Using a falsified birth certificate finagled by the sponsor of a Brooklyn all-star team, Almonte took his team on a glorious joy ride to the 2001 Little League World Series. It all unraveled miserably when Sports Illustrated revealed that Almonte -- a left-handed pitching phenom -- was 14, two years older than the acceptable limit.

Almonte's records, which included a no-hitter against Apopka, were stricken from the record books, though the Scarlet Letter will never be erased.

"What happened, happened," he said. "I want to concentrate on the present."

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I'm not reading all that. I had been wondering about him over a year ago. Since the scandal, after he started school, we hadn't heard much. Then we didn't hear anything after he moved from New York. I'm curious. But I'm not reading all that. Summarize and/or put the important part in bold.
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Strider, don't bother. It's a fluff piece.
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