Even the older kids, they love being around him. “He just had it about him,” Angela Delia says. He just understands it as ‘This is what I did and people like it.’ ”Īl and Angela Delia knew before Big Al was even in kindergarten that there was something special about him. He doesn’t understand the bigger aspects of it. His voice was especially raspy, he says, because his team had just finished a game when the intro was recorded and he’d been yelling in the dugout the whole time. He was asked by ESPN for his nickname - he said Big Al - and his favorite part about baseball. The way the viral clip happened sums up Big Al pretty well. He’s from Jersey, so he likes Mike Trout too. He’s a New York Yankees fan, who likes to watch Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton hit dingers. After that came many texts.”īig Al is the youngest of three Delia kids, trailing his twin sister by a few minutes. “About a half hour after the game,” Angela Delia says, “that’s the first time they aired it on TV and my daughter said he was getting hundreds and thousands of views. “I didn’t even know about the video until people started texting me,” Al Delia said. Big Al’s guidance counselor from school called his mom to say how proud his family should be of him. Players on other teams said, “That’s Big Al” when they saw him and wanted to trade tournament pins with the Middletown team. “Pots and Pans,” because he hits cleanup.Īn umpire wanted to take picture with him to show his own son. Friends, teammates and coaches also call him Cookie, Bubba, Boomer, Pots and Pans and The Sauce. The 12-year-old slugger actually has more than one nickname. is actually known as “Little Al” and the original Alfred Delia is also called “Big Al.” It’s the circle of life. “He don’t swing for them, but they come.”įun fact: Big Al is actually Alfred Delia III. Decker Prairie, Decordova, Deer Park, Del Mar Heights, Del Rio, Del Valle, Delia, Dell City. “I can’t even count how many the last two years of travel ball,” says Al Delia, Big Al’s dad and one of the coaches on his teams. Alexander, Alexanders Store, Aley, Alfred, Algerita. “It was unforgettable for me.”įor everybody who wanted to know more about Big Al and whether the legend was true, here you go. “The next morning my sister showed me how many views I had, I just sat down, thought about it for like five minutes,” Big Al told Yahoo Sports. Imagine being the 12-year-old who woke up the next day and was an all-of-a-sudden Internet celebrity: That version of video was closing in six million views - and that doesn’t include all the others versions of it floating around the Internet. They hit no dingers in the process.Welp, found my favorite baseball player ever. Unfortunately, Delia’s power-hitting magic didn’t rub off on the Bomber, as they went on to put up just one run against the lowly Chicago White Sox. The Yankees’ centerfielder even got Big Al to sign his shirt. Hicks seemed a bit star-struck himself, sporting a “Big Al Hits Dingers” t-shirt. The youngster also met Gleyber Torres and Aaron Hicks while he was in the Bronx. However, meeting with Stanton and the Yankees was obviously extra meaningful. The sensation has also reached the rest of the entertainment world, as Delia has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and caused a bit of an existential crisis for comedian Chris D’Elia: Former Met Jose Bautista invited Delia to Citi Field, but the Yankees got to him first. He’s hung out with other Major Leaguers like the New York Mets‘ Todd Frazier and the Philadelphia Phillies’ Rhys Hoskins. It was just amazing.”īig Al was generous enough to share some of his viral fame with Stanton in a video posted to social media that features the two declaring, “We hit dingers.”Īn unstoppable dinger-hitting machine… and Giancarlo Stantonĭelia is no stranger to encountering famous people. “And then he brought me down and I was like, ‘Really?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, come on,’ and we took a video. “He came up and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh! He’s here!’” Delia told MLB.com reporters Jessica Kleinschmidt and Mandy Bell. Big Al was understandably emotional when he got the opportunity to meet his baseball hero. The New Jersey Little Leaguer even got to meet his favorite Yankee, Giancarlo Stanton.ĭelia, whose fame springs from his self-proclaimed proclivity for hitting “dingers,” chatted with the Yankees’ slugger and posed for pictures. The New York Yankees put together a special batting practice before their game on Wednesday night as Little League World Series celebrity Alfred “Big Al” Delia showed up. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees are the latest stop in Big Al’s rise to fame as a LLWS sensation.
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