Imagine getting cut from the team because you were packing too much shmeat

Came for a baseball video, left with a 17 minute history lesson on Taiwan

If I was 12, and a DOCTOR(who probably wasn’t a very good one but still) thought I was an adult from just look at my “private parts” I’d have the BIGGEST ego boost ever

To be honest I thought all the international teams were basically composed of the best players in the country

Even though it wasn't mentioned in the video, this explains the motivation of Filipino leaders to cheat their way to a Little League World Series championship in 1992.  They were tired of losing to Taiwan in the Far East Regional Tournament.  So at the end of the Philippines national tournament, they replaced many of the championship team's players with players from other teams to form a national team to compete in the Far East regional and then the World Series. But they got caught and had to forfeit the LLWS championship game to Long Beach, California.  Long Beach had a young team in 1992 and returned to Williamsport in 1993 and won the title on the field.

11:08 Fun fact the doctor that invented the scale for judging genital development would always testify against any side in court trying to use his scale to determine age, generally in CP cases where the subject's identity was unknown. Because he created it for the diagnosis and analysis of precocious and delayed puberty. That's all it's actually good for is estimating where you are in puberty.  Although I bet he never expected little league age requirements to be a context his scale would be misused.

the main 2 reasons it was unfair; the fact they were trained as professional athletes for 9 hours a day (as children) gives them a big advantage, and the fact they had the ability to handpick their team from the ENTIRE country's population of 14 million vs. a regular little league's district in a state (15,000) It's like letting a football team have every 1st and 2nd round draft pick, in 5 drafts. Every year.

You easily have the best introductions on the platform. So captivating.

That team that ended their streak was from Kirkland, WA. I highly encourage people to watch that 30 for 30 show done on them. #20 shown in this video was one of those big kids that just dominated everybody, and he talks about his experience growing up after and how he just became average when everyone else started to catch up in size.

Lost 17-1 to them in ‘91. They feasted on us Canadians haha. I didn’t think they were older. But we knew about their school system.

Kept saying they cheated much worse over and over, but it really never got THAT insane. I fell for it the first 10 times but dang finally 30 yrs later they actually lived up to the hype

The fact that with all that success they have only managed to send 16 players to the MLB tells you all you need to know about their "development " of baseball players.

I was looking forward to hearing about the 26-0 Canada game. That year canadian baseball was proud they had an amazing squad

There's a great Taiwainese movie called Taipei Story which centers around a kid who used to play in a world class little league team, but now is a despondent and depressed adult. Highly suggest, this history lesson made me realize how good that movie actually was, and all it was trying to capture.

this is a very sad story, because these were just kids doing what they were told to do and in the end, everyone lost.

Its insane that Taiwan changed so damn much just over 70 years. Though learning the dark sides of my country is quite importent. Good honest content

Not banned for being too good, banned for violating child labor standards.

Glad to see you cover Taiwanese baseball. I'm sure you'll cover the match fixing scandals that plagued Taiwan's professional league, the CPBL, in the 1990s and 2000s. There's all sorts of criminal activity that went on during those years.

You did it again, great video.
The Little League World Series might have the deepest history of cheating in all of athletics and I love it.

It's kind of insane to see how much political warfare is used in sports. Feel bad for these kiddos. They were players in someone else's game.