What REALLY Happened to the BEST Little League World Series Player Ever? 

Dude this video blew upppp

there is a 13 year old who I played against who played up and was 6 foot 5

Appreciate you bro, remember you from when I was 11 with my shot at the World Series the next year, you and your team were an incredible inspiration, as a fellow early bloomer🤣, SALUD 🥂

How can you be a lot older than Luke and go to highschool with the other

THE GOAT HIMSELF XD

@@yankeesam11 great video

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How many people checked your birth certificate that season? And how many requested steroid tests?

I’m 16 6’4 🤟🏾

whats po

@@pwx13 pitcher only

@@ryanburdeaux pitcher only

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@@pwx13 pitcher only

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Imperial County too!

Was loving those kids in Encinitas!

6’1 340 pound 7th grade nose guard. Absolute animal. Quit my sophomore year at 6’2 450. I peaked just got fatter and now I’m 6’2 205 🤣

@@icantsnagup1461 damn dude, you shed a whole you..

Shoot from 6-8th grade I was better than this kid that eventually became the starting PG for his high school. He couldn’t beat me 1 on 1, knock out, horse, around the world. But 9th grade came and I was still 5’8 and dude became 6’4. My parents never told me those guys on TV are literally giants among men.

@@icantsnagup1461 mans gained 25% of his weight then lost 50%

I peaked at 5'3 at age 13 but can't relate

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Of course. I was little when the team happened but I look back at highlight reels. Huge padre fan here! LET'S GO BRO WE'RE GONNA BE INSANE!!!!!

San Diego!

619 woot woot!

For reals. I was so hyped when they won.

Did you umpire from 2013-2019 if so you probably umped a few of my games

Number 22 was hitting a .500. Blonde Head Kid #1 team in the nation

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She was my third grade teacher 😂

That's wholesome. Considering Little League used to be 11 and under. Which helps separate kids from prepubescent boys and high schoolers. He should have been playing with kids his own age. Not elementary children

Ya I got a forged one of those also👍

It doesn’t mean the birth certificate was real…..

My mom had to do that for me, at every tournament until I was in high school. And I'm not even that big. Lol.

He's famous for taking the base with him to the clubhouse lmao

This is what i was coming to say. cant get much better than Legendary Lloyd

1989 Cubs alum

2011 ocean beach team might have an edge, so much athleticism and success on that team after the llws

The 92 and 93 Long Beach team was the best ive ever watched. Sean Burroughs was a beast on the mound and at the plate. Back to back no hitters and hit bombs

Great Lakes team from a couple years ago?

Except he wasn't actually 13

REPENT JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK SO SOON💗

At 13 I hit 6ft 220. I didn't grow another inch lol

A 13 yr old that went to school with my son was 6'4 200 & when he graduated he was 6'8 270! I was only 5'2 125 when I was 13 but shot up to 6'2 180 by 15 & never grew again but gained weight to 210 when I graduated

@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman damn 125 at 5'2😳

And your UPS supervisor wants you back on your route Tuesday at the latest, no excuses.

And you’re also having to coach your sons little league team after practice

Same man, just popped up in my recommended right now. Pretty dope that you went to school with them!

Is it crazy though? They’re always watching us

The league I play at has a picture of this team in our scorebooth, of them playing on one of our fields.

That was me unfortunately lmaoooo. Was 5'8 and 160 in fifth grade but i could move for my size. Always picked first in all the recreational league drafts they held for each season for baseball football and basketball. I peaked in middle school sporting wise. Played varsity 3 years in highschool for football and baseball but was never really the best on my team.

Other kid was hitting with a Combat B2 Da Bomb too. I was a very small 11 year old but was considered a power hitter going into All Stars just because of that bat.

that bat is op. but i was a fan of the demarini bats

Thank you kind sir!

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Facts along with every other sport

@@sbc4434 every player in the mlb was definitely the best players on their high school teams. Tony kemp was probably way better than anyone on his high school team. I dominated up through high school and got drafted at 18, then was very mediocre once I got into the minors lol. It’s actually not too hard to get get looked at by scouts and get to the minors, getting to the bigs is a whole different monster.

Not necessarily true, Paul Goldschmidt didn’t even make the high school roster

@@brandon-vl2mi I’m going to call bs on that. His Wikipedia page says he was his high schools starting 3rd baseman.

@@drossi101 yes, you are correct. I guess I meant he wasn’t anything special until his junior/ senior year.

Unfortunately, the West teams' parents are the worst. I'm from Williamsport, grew up in the 90s, and worked over there every summer. (When I was 12, we went to regionals and lost against Tom's River, NJ who won it all that year.) Anyway, about the West coast teams that come through. Assholes! Straight up, assholes! The year I was 15 selling sodas over there (yes, I could clear $700 in a week in the late 90s/early 2000s just being a soda vendor), there was one father who.had to be removed from the stadium and have his family pass taken from him, all because I stopped to sell a bunch of sodas to a group of kids sitting two rows down and in front of the father who's kid apparently was at bat at the time. Rather than move himself so he could see his kid swing away, instead, he had to come down and get in my face, screaming and yelling. I'm 15, small for my age, and getting screamed at by a grown ass man! Yeah, security didn't take too well to that. He was perma-banned from the family section for the rest of the series. That's just one incident. The parents....the PARENTS! Would come downtown and barhop. They'd get drunk and rowdy. I was a bouncer at both a nightclub and a bar a few blocks over in my early 20s. At the bar I worked at on Wednesday and Thursday nights, (I worked the nightclub Fridays and Saturdays). One Thursday night, a group of 40-something parents come over acting like they're a bunch of 20 year old kids. Acting stupid. I go to kick em out, and they act all like: "Dont you know who we are!?" And flash their family passes for the stadium across the river in South Side, as if that's some sort of excuse and as if I cared! I ended up having to grip up the one dude, and shoved him out of the door onto the sidewalk. The other parents tried assaulting me, and one wan flung her drink at me. A few ended up in cuffs, then released after being warned not to come back or else they'll face trespassing charges. I pressed charges against the bitch who threw her drink at me. She paid her fine, and was barred from the stadium the next day when LLWS security got wind or it. Another time, security witnessed a California coach screaming obscenities at one of his players in one of the practice fields below the stadium. Which was disallowed conduct by Little League International. They threatened to suspend him, but in the end, decided it was bad for publicity and both coach agreed to not act like that in front of any cameras. Which are all over the damn place. They're also incredibly rude in general, and have no qualms about bullying other teams. The things you can hear them shout sometimes during a game. Wondering if a camera pick it up or not. Lol California was the reason that noisemakers were banned, so the nostalgic sounds of cowbells no longer ring out over there. They got those obnoxious Swedish bullhorn things that were so popular at the Olympics and the Fifa World Cup, and used those RELENTLESSLY non-fucking stop! So Little League turned around and banned all noisemakers. Destroyed the cowbell tradition that dates back half a century before then! So yeah. I kinda don't like the teams from California.

The B1 was better IMO

Orange mako had the biggest sweet spot bombs no matter where you hit it! Most used bat, so hot they made a story about it.

I remember hitting with that bat. Basically any contact, even jammed or off the end of the bat, felt squared up

I also pitched against Parkview… wasn’t fun

@@Joetrout The Combat B2 was banned, the Mako was not. The B2 was one of the first composite bats produced under the 1.15bpf standard, however they tested all bats right out of the wrapper, not realizing that composite bats get hotter as they are worked in. There is no question that the B2 was hotter than the Mako - not even close. I have two of them for fun and they are like softball bats.

Is there any video of those games?

Bulla Graft was a great HS running back and went on to play Div 3 college ball - I think it was D3. He was too small to get D1 offers.

So the best little league all star team ever lost 18-0?

@@jamesfields2916 Yeah... I think so. It's baseball. Even the 1927 Yankees lost 44 games that year and were blown out several times. Like I said... it's baseball.

No doubt they were a great team, but that was the “Hot Bat” era.

They changed the rule after that year they banned BBCORE in bats 😂😂

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They still are! You got got 12yr olds swinging drop 10-12 bats! By the time you are 12 and playing select travel ball you have to use a drop 8. Not only that a larger field also 70’ bags larger outfield not little league 60’ bases. Huge difference

@@christianamon2946 bbcor is a high school, college bat does not have any pop! Closest you can get to a wooden bat

@@Joetrout I meant to say composite! You’re right I been out the game so long, but I’m the same age as Luke I played for a rival little league. They banned composite bats the very next year. You’re right bbcore was weak

Great life observation I graduated in 85 and I love the fact that the sociological ramifications of those experiences can be positive and negative if not dealt with in a positive way .when I had children I tried to teach them about those things ... always gave positive reinforcement along with a touch of reality..lollol 🤨🤨....⚓⚓⚓⚓🇺🇲🇺🇲go navy marines.

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I did all the time. It was my cousin Travis. He was probably 6'0 and 250 by 13. He would hit tons of homeruns but he couldn't hit me. I was too fast. I was probably pitching around 65 or 70 by 12 years old.

@@ebogar42 that’s cool and all but have you ever played with a kid who’s projected to go 15th overall in this years draft. I’m Canadian so obviously I’m talking about the nhl. I Won some big ass tournament we where the second hometown team to win it ever and it’s been going on since the 70s my dads team was the first. I won with this kid when I was 12 there was 2 kids on the team who had dads who played in the nhl only one made it anywhere after minor hockey. Yes I’m 18😂

@@noland5345 I've played sports with pro athletes and even played semi-pro myself. I've seen a lot of good talent and my cousin was one of them. He could have been pro if he would have stayed in college and not started partying. There was a guy who was around our age who he was better at and the other guy played in the NFL for years. I've played with talent like this. I did play all-stars every year for Little League. We had a decent team that could have stomped these teams, but never had the right coaches and lacked on hitting heat. There were only a few pitchers that even could pitch fast in our area, and two was in Covington little league which included me and my teammate, and the others were in Clifton Forge which we never played with besides all-stars. Most of us never saw a lot of heat or used to it, but if we would have been we could have went far in all-stars which leads up to the world series.

The only reason was cause he was so much bigger

@@Dan-md3hr ya think?

98 HR % - trust me bro

He became a land whale lol

I kind of know about bulla, he lived in my house right before me and crazy enough my uncle is my neighbor and was bullas, my cousin was friends with him and my cousin is also my barber and him living in my house got brought up and he mentioned how he was gonna hang out with him That night, from what I remember he learned a trade and makes good money and has a good life

They were all GOATs. Hope you subscribe and stay part of this RU-vid community, JT!

And Al Rios is like 6'7" so its shocking he wasnt even the biggest kid on the team lol.

Hey, maybe you'll be just as big of a legend as Bulla. Hope you subscribe and stay part of this RU-vid community, Joshua!

I’m sorry to hear that 😅

Liberty Missouri! Wendys just burned down there lol

Ironically my homie is wrestling their too, small world

100%. All the guys who made it to the majors that I played with or went to my highschool were very low-key players who were skilled in very specific things in both batting and defense. They also looked like normal people, not crazy large athletes

I went to high school with Evan Longoria at St John Basco and he was a regular dude living a regular life with friends and all and he made it to major league I feel these kids here are over pressured and by the time they hit high school all the parents dreams will be shattered because it won’t be fun anymore to the kids when they get older

@@ManCity-5Peat-Loading It's a little like Steve Prefontaine, the Olympic distance runner who grew up about an hour from where I now live. Apparently his first year in high school, he was _decent_ but nothing more; in the mile, he was just outside the top 50 at the Oregon state championships (not typically as competitive as, say, the California or New York championships since our whole state population is a fraction of Los Angeles or NYC alone). He was just beginning to stand out in his sophomore and junior years, but not before.

I am 6'4 230 but growing up I was always around the same height or a little taller than the average kid. I was always the best even when the freaky guys would grow 6 inches i was still more skilled. I went on to be a college hall of fame baseball player and then signed with the brewers I was 20. Point being the guys who grow early are just better because they are bigger you look for the kids or kid who is still just as good as the bigger guys but he is of normal size

It's a lot of different things, and it's different for each player with high expectations that never "Made it." Too much pressure from parents and coaches at too young an age. Too much ego. Related to too much ego, is the "know-it-alls." Overly confident arrogance to the point of never learning or progressing with their mechanics that always "worked so well" for them all along. Generally not caring. Just something they never really had an interest in to begin with, even if they did have natural talent. The ones who "make it," are the ones who go along every day. Doing all the little everyday mundane things, and in a seemingly casual manner. Just doing what they love doing. Lifint weights. Maybe running. Taking a few extra drills everyday. Remaining humble and listening to coaches and doing as they ask. Being observant. Slowly building up newer, better, more precise techniques. Such as their batting stance: everything from hand and foot placement, to movent of the hips and arms. How they squat in a ready position on the field. 12 year olds are naturally "sloppy" in comparison to the pros. Obviously. The best players at the age of 12, are also sloppy. But they're so used to be being so dominant. They are too comfortable and become too attached and set in their ways. And it isnt necessarily that they Don't WANT to improve. It's more along the lines that they are not ABLE to improve. Brains begin to lose their childlike neuro-plasticity by the time they're in high school. It literally becomes extremely difficult to get rid of the incorrect muscle memory they've so thoroughly developed that worked so damn well at a too young of an age.

Not always, but once the level of play becomes even like in professional level, the hard work needs to be there.

The average height for an adult male in the US is under 5’10”. So 6’ at 13 years is unusual.

@@reyleon67 I am aware of what the average height is. I simply stated it's not unusual to see a 6 foot 13 year old. I have probably seen at least 10 just this weekend at my sons little league tournament.

@@mynameisnotbob941 a kid on my sons team is 6ft and he’s 12, absolutely crushes the ball, as well as his hitting coach has a few kids 6ft or better at 13u level. Let alone tournaments. Totally agree it’s not unusual imo anymore.

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Team was hype fosho!

Man haven't heard his name in a long time! Sean won back 2 back little league championships!

Too many GOATs to name, Luke is just my personal favorite. Hope you subscribe and stay part of this RU-vid community, Curtis!

My dad's friend coached against them in the first tournament and told him how good they were so we got to follow them all the way to the Regionals in San Bernadino. We knew how good they were and it was a lot of fun watching that team. But Sean B. and a family friend who won the Bronco WS were the best 12 year olds I've ever seen play.

@@yankeesam11 Burroughs was much more talented than Luke. 1st Rd draft pick out of HS too!

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I wish I was that tall 😜 Hope you subscribe and stay part of this RU-vid community!

Lucky bastard I’m 14 and still 5ft

I am 13 but 6ft and 190 and mostly musical I am a wrestler and i do bjj and boxing

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@@dylanwanders5983 stop your whining I’m a month from 16 and I’m 5’5”

Both him and his brother

He was a great coach with the Tigers too! If I remember correctly Tigers hitters won 3 or 4 batting titles with his as our hitting coach

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