Foul Ball.

For a few weeks in August, Danny Almonte, a Little League pitcher from the Bronx, N.Y., was a hero. The Dominican Republic-born player pitched a rare perfect game in the Little League World Series. When a reporter later found out that Danny was 14 years old--two years too old to play Little League baseball--many fans were shocked. The scandal brought to this cartoonist's mind the 1919 World Series, when players from the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking money illegally to deliberately lose the Series. During the trial, a young fan saw baseball legend "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, one of the accused, and cried out, "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

Why does the cartoonist compare the Little League incident to one of baseball's biggest scandals?