Little League World Series 1957

Little League World Series 1957
Tournament details
host	United States
Period	August
Attendees	4th
Defending champion	Roswell
Bottom line
winner	South (1st title)
Second	west
Third	east
Fourth	North
statistics
Games	4th
< 1956	1958 >

Coordinates: 41 ° 14 ′ 39 "  N , 77 ° 1 ′ 6"  W

The Little League World Series in 1957 was the 11th edition of the Little League Baseball World Series , an international baseball tournament for boys between 11 and 12 years of age. It was the first event where you had to qualify across regions. This reduced the field of participants to four teams. The game was played in Williamsport .

In July 1957, the Monterrey team took part in a tournament in McAllen , Texas on a three-day visa . One day was planned for playing and two days for sightseeing. After the victory in McAllen and the two more days in the USA they ran out of money and a return to the USA would have been impossible. After several phone calls to Washington, a solution was found that the team could stay in the USA until they were definitively eliminated from the tournaments. But that never happened because the team never lost a tournament. They won six tournaments in a row including the tournament of the Little League World Series Region South and the Little League World Series in 1957. In September, the team returned to Mexico, still unbeaten. The achievements of the los pequeños gigantes (the little giants) are retold in the two films Los Pequeños Gigantes (1960) and The Perfect Game (2008).

In the final game, the Mexican pitcher Ángel Macías threw the first and only perfect game in the history of the LLWS.

Attendees

region	Attendees
North	Escanaba
east	Bridgeport
south	Monterrey
west	La Mesa

Results

	Semifinals				final
	West region	7th
	North region	1
					West region	0
					South region	4th
					3rd place
	South region	2			North region	3
	East region	1			East region	4th

Web links

• Los pequeños gigantes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Perfect Game in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baseball History The Little League World Series of 1957. trivia-library.com, accessed June 27, 2013 (eng). 
2. ↑ Tournament schedule, results and Rosters LLWS 1957. (No longer available online.) Littleleague.org, archived from the original on July 13, 2013 ; accessed on June 27, 2013 (eng). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.