1992 Little League World Series

1992 Little League World Series
Tournament details
Dates	August 25–August 29
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Long Beach Little League; Long Beach, California
	← 1991 1993 →

The 1992 Little League World Series took place between August 24 and August 29 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The team representing the Zamboanga City Little League, the Filipino representative in the Far East Region, won the International Championship while Long Beach, California, the United States West Region representative, won the U.S. Championship.

In the championship game of the 46th Little League World Series, Zamboanga City defeated Long Beach, 15–4, to become the first Asian team outside of Taiwan,^[a] South Korea, or Japan to be champion. However, it was discovered upon further review that the Filipino team violated age and residency rules and Little League Baseball stripped them of their title. Long Beach was awarded a 6–0 victory by forfeit as per Little League rules and became only the fourth American team in 20 years to become Little League champions.

The championship game did not feature a team from Taiwan for the first time since 1985. This tied the record of six consecutive finals set by Taiwan from 1977 through 1982. To date, this record has not been seriously approached by one country or state.

This was the first edition of the tournament to feature night games, as lights had been added to Howard J. Lamade Stadium following the prior year's tournament.^[1]

Far East series

Between 1967, when Japan's West Tokyo won, and 1992, the Little League World Series was won 19 of a possible 25 times by the Far East champion. Competing against the national champions of traditionally stronger baseball nations like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Filipino teams had been unable to qualify for the LLWS.^[2] In 1992, however, the Far East was represented by Zamboanga City, which had won the national Filipino title.

The tournament

The 1992 tournament debuted the round-robin format; no longer would a team play against a predetermined opponent in the first round, with the winners facing each other in the semifinal, with the winner advancing to the Saturday championship.

The new format had each team play the other three teams in their bracket, and then having the top two teams play each other in the semifinal, with the winners advancing to the championship.

Zamboanga City defeated the teams from Germany and Quebec before losing to the Dominican Republic, in the round-robin. This was enough to get them into the international final, a rematch with the Dominican Republic, which they won 5–1.^[3] The championship game against California was a blowout, with Zamboanga City winning 15–4 after a seven-run first inning.^[4] The team was hailed as heroes in the Philippines, President Ramos giving the team a gift of 1,000,000 pesos to contribute to the livelihood of their families.^[5] Long Beach head coach Jeff Burroughs remarked that semi-final pitcher "Roberto Placious" had the poise of a high school or college pitcher.^[6]

Teams

United States	International
Long Beach, California West Region Long Beach Little League	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Latin America Region Epy Guerrero Little League
Hamilton Square, New Jersey East Region Nottingham Little League	Kaiserslautern, Germany Europe Region Kaiserslautern Little League
South Holland, Illinois Central Region South Holland Little League	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec Canada Region Valleyfield Little League
Lake Charles, Louisiana South Region South Lake Charles Little League	Zamboanga City, Philippines Far East Region Zamboanga City Little League

Pool play

**United States**
Rank	State	Record
1	California	3–0
2	New Jersey	2–1
3	Louisiana	1–2
4	Illinois	0–3

**International**
Rank	Country	Record
1	Dominican Republic	3–0
2	Philippines	2–1
3	Canada	1–2
4	Germany	0–3

Pool	Away	Score	Home	Score
August 24
US	California	10	Illinois	6
INT	Dominican Republic	29	Canada	0
INT	Germany	2	Philippines	14
US	Louisiana	0	New Jersey	5
August 25
INT	Dominican Republic	24 (F/4)	Germany	0
US	California	6	New Jersey	4
US	Illinois	2	Louisiana	3 (F/8)
INT	Canada	0	Philippines	2
August 26
US	New Jersey	5	Illinois	2
INT	Canada	10	Germany	3
INT	Philippines	1	Dominican Republic	8
US	California	16	Louisiana	1

Elimination round

Semi-finals		Final

August 27

Philippines	5
		August 29 Forfeit: see more
Dominican Republic	1
		Philippines	0
August 27
		California	6
California	1

New Jersey	0

1992 Little League World Series Champions
Long Beach Little League Long Beach, California

Zamboanga City was disqualified for fielding ineligible players forfeiting the final to Long Beach.

Notable players

Sean Burroughs (Long Beach, California), MLB player from 2002 to 2012
Anthony Forsberg, College player Long Beach State 2001

Champions Path

The Long Beach LL had an undefeated record of 12 wins and 0 losses to reach the LLWS.^[7]^[8] In total their record was 17–0, the last win coming from the forfeit by the Philippines.

Round	Opposition	Result
Section 4
Section 4 Winner's Bracket	Metropolitan LL	5–0
Section 4 Winner's Bracket	Puente Hills LL	4–0
Section 4 Championship	Metropolitan LL	10–3
South California Divisional
Winner's Bracket Opening Round	Eastview LL	1–0
Winner's Bracket Semifinals	Deer Canyon LL	4–3
Winner's Bracket Finals	Northridge American LL	8–0
South Championship	Northridge American LL	10–1
West Regional
Round 1	Raleigh Hills LL	4–3
Quarterfinals	Northstar LL	8–2
Semifinals	Pearl City LL	3–2
Finals	San Ramon Valley LL	13–4
Finals	San Ramon Valley LL	11–3

Notes

^ Due to complicated relations with the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China—commonly known as Taiwan—is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by a majority of international organizations, including Little League Baseball. For more information, see Cross-Strait relations. LLWS records and news accounts may use Republic of China, Taiwan, or Chinese Taipei to refer to the same entity.

References

^ "Little Leaguers are set to play under the lights". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). Associated Press. August 24, 1992. p. 1C.
^ "Search by League Name". Archived from the original on March 13, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006.
^ "1992 Little League Baseball World Series". Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2006.
^ "1992 Line Scores". Archived from the original on June 4, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006.
^ "Google Groups". groups.google.com.
^ "Google Groups". groups.google.com.
^ "Southern California Little League Tournament Results". Unpage.com. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
^ "West Region Tournament". Unpage.com. Retrieved October 9, 2010.

External links

"1992 Little League World Series". Archived from the original on September 30, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2006.
"Line scores for the 1992 LLWS". Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2006.

[1] Due to complicated relations with the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China—commonly known as Taiwan—is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by a majority of international organizations, including Little League Baseball. For more information, see Cross-Strait relations. LLWS records and news accounts may use Republic of China, Taiwan, or Chinese Taipei to refer to the same entity.

[2] "Little Leaguers are set to play under the lights". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). Associated Press. August 24, 1992. p. 1C.

[llws_Philippines_history-3] "Search by League Name". Archived from the original on March 13, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006.

[llws_history_1992-4] "1992 Little League Baseball World Series". Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2006.

[llws_line_scores_1992-5] "1992 Line Scores". Archived from the original on June 4, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006.

[newsgroup_article_ramos_1m_pesos-6] "Google Groups". groups.google.com.

[burroughs_remark_placious-7] "Google Groups". groups.google.com.

[8] "Southern California Little League Tournament Results". Unpage.com. Retrieved October 9, 2010.

[9] "West Region Tournament". Unpage.com. Retrieved October 9, 2010.

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