Unlikely Champions: A Miracle in Williamsport celebrates the 25th anniversary of the most stunning upset in the history of the Little League World Series, following the players, now successful adults, leaders, and family men, as they tell their inspirational stories and relate the life lessons they learned. Trumbull National Little League's unlikely 5-2 victory over Taiwan in the 1989 Little League World Series evokes memories of a Little League miracle. Fifteen ordinary 12-year-old boys accomplished something extraordinary ...
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Unlikely Champions: A Miracle in Williamsport celebrates the 25th anniversary of the most stunning upset in the history of the Little League World Series, following the players, now successful adults, leaders, and family men, as they tell their inspirational stories and relate the life lessons they learned. Trumbull National Little League's unlikely 5-2 victory over Taiwan in the 1989 Little League World Series evokes memories of a Little League miracle. Fifteen ordinary 12-year-old boys accomplished something extraordinary, winning the hearts of sports fans across America in the process, stunning the mighty Taiwanese. As the Trumbull kids celebrated on the field, the American-flag-waving crowd of 40,000 chanted in earnest - "USA! USA!" No one gave these Little Leaguers from a small town in Connecticut a chance to win. If your Little League son or daughter aspires to play on Williamsport's Little League Field of Dreams for a world championship, then you must read what these Unlikely Champions have to say to your ballplayer achieving those dreams. We pass along the legacy of the game of baseball by telling stories, from fathers to sons and daughters, grandfathers to grandsons and granddaughters, one generation of fans to the next. It's why every game broadcast features a play-by-play announcer for the action and a "color commentator," to explain the game and share stories about it. The late A. Bartlett Giamatti often claimed that "Baseball stories were at the heart of the appeal of our game. The history of baseball is an oral one." This is an American baseball story, finally...and finely told. Foreword by Chris Berman
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Very good. [8], 283, [1] pages. Illustrations (Photo Gallery). Foreword by Chris Berman. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The author attended the Yankees versus the Braves in the 1958 World Series--his first baseball game. He has loved baseball ever since. Christopher Gallo has spent his entire career as a certified public accountant, and in August 2012 he founded his own consulting firm, Christopher Gallo, CPA, LLC, which specializes in providing litigation support and forensic accounting services, helping entrepreneurs focus on making money, and assisting family-owned businesses in transition. After a 13 year career with the International accounting and consulting firm, Ernst & Young, Chris joined the entrepreneurially-focused CPA firm, Nishball, Carp, Niedermeier, Pacowta & Co., P.C. in 1988 as a principal. On January 1, 2009, he joined Blum Shapiro & Company, P.C. as a partner, when NCNP merged with Blum Shapiro, the largest CPA firm in New England. Chris retired from Blum Shapiro in August 2012. Chris has spent most of his career working with entrepreneurs in technology manufacturing industries, metal products, medical products, food products, electronics and specialty equipment fabrication and assembly. Unlikely Champions: A Miracle in Williamsport celebrates the 25th anniversary of the most stunning upset in the history of the Little League World Series, following the players, now successful adults, leaders, and family men, as they tell their inspirational stories and relate the life lessons they learned. Trumbull National Little League 's unlikely 5-2 victory over Taiwan in the 1989 Little League World Series evokes memories of a Little League miracle. Fifteen ordinary 12-year-old boys accomplished something extraordinary, winning the hearts of sports fans across America in the process. As the Trumbull kids celebrated on the field, the American-flag-waving crowd of 40, 000 chanted in earnest " USA! USA! " No one gave these Little Leaguers from a small town in Connecticut a chance to win. We pass along the legacy of the game of baseball by telling stories, from fathers to sons and daughters, grandfathers to grandsons and granddaughters, one generation of fans to the next. It's why every game broadcast features a play-by-play announcer for the action and a color commentator, to explain the game and share stories about it. The late A. Bartlett Giamatti often claimed that Baseball stories were at the heart of the appeal of our game.
