US EditionÁngel Macías Barba (1944-2025) - Find a Grave...
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Ángel Macías Barba died on Sunday at age 80, but will be remembered for a feat he performed when he was barely a child. At age 12, on August 23, 1957, he launched a perfect game, the only one registered in that tournament so far, which allowed the representative of Mexico to win his first championship of a World Series of Small Leagues, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, competition that takes place since 1947. There was born the nickname with which…
His legend was forged in Monterrey and projected to the world. Ángel Macías, an icon of Mexican baseball and an eternal child hero, died at the age of 80, but his legacy does not go away; he stays with the new generations of baseball players looking for inspiration. Ángel was born on September 2, 1944 in the city of Aguascalientes. Macías will always be remembered for his historic performance in the 1957 World Series of Small Leagues in Williams…
Pedro Díaz G. Ángel Macías died. And with him went more than just a pitcher. He left the boy who grazed perfection in a field of other people’s land, in a country that did not expect to see a Mexican team lift the champion’s trophy. But above all, he went away the purest image of Mexican child baseball: the arm that wrote an indelible line in the history of sport. He was 12 years old. He did not know of records, nor scouts, nor transmissions. It…
Ángel Macías Barba (1944-2025) - Find a Grave...
Little League Baseball Player and Professional Baseball Player. He was a Mexican Little League baseball player whose name became forever etched in history when, at just 12 years old, he pitched the only perfect game ever recorded in a Little League World Series championship, to date. The game took place in 1957 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, when he helped Mexico become the first non-U.S. team to win the title. Later in his life he went on to pl…
A legend of Mexican b isbol is extinguished.
A legend of Mexican b isbol is extinguished.
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