The Sandlot Page #7

Lou Gehrig!

[Scotty]

Babe Ruth! But why would you trade?

That one's all chewed up.

I got a lot of good stuff.

Look at that stuff.

Besides, you need it

more than I do.

You knew Babe Ruth?

George? I sure did.

And he knew me.

He was almost as great

a hitter as I was.

- I would've broken his record, but...

- You went blind.

Yep. I used to crowd the plate...

so the strike zone

almost disappeared.

[Laughs]

Pitchers hate that.

That's the way I played...

100% all the time.

Baseball was life.

And I was good at it, real good.

And then... one day,

a high fast one, and pow,

lights went out.

I don't think we

could take this ball.

I'll tell you what.

You guys come by once a week

and talk baseball with me,

we'll call it an even trade.

Deal!

[Scotty Narrating] Even though

Bill loved the Murderer's Row ball,

he was still plenty mad

about me having swiped...

his Babe Ruth autographed ball

and ruining it.

So I didn't feel too bad when

he grounded me for a week...

instead of the rest of my life.

Wow!

Things worked out

between me and him.

And from then on,

I didn't have any trouble...

just calling him Dad

all the time.

We all lived together

in the neighborhood

for a couple of more years...

mostly through junior high school...

and every summer was great.

But none of them ever came

close to that first one.

When one guy would move away,

we never replaced him

on the team with anyone else.

We just kept the game going

like he was still there.

You're starting

to hurt my hand.

[Boy]

Don't miss it!

[Scotty Narrating]

It was weird that Benny said...

Babe Ruth was like the Hercules

of baseball, and The Beast's

name ended up being Hercules.

None of us could figure out

what that meant,

but we were all amazed by it.

I kept in touch with those guys

over the years,

and I found out that Yeah-Yeah's parents

shipped him off to military school.

After the army, he became one of the

pioneering developers of bungee jumping.

Of course, we all know why.

Bertram, well... Bertram got

really into the '60s,

and no one ever saw him again.

Timmy and Tommy became

an architect and a contractor.

They started out small,

designing playground equipment...

and prefabricated tree houses.

But they became

multimillionaires...

when they invented

mini-malls.

Squints grew up and married

Wendy Peffercorn.

They have nine kids.

They bought Vincent's Drugstore,

and they still own it to this day.

Hamilton Porter became

a professional wrestler.

You know him

as The Great Hambino.

DeNunez played triple-A ball,

but he never got to the majors.

He owns his own business now,

and he coaches a little league team...

that his sons play on

called the Heaters.

Hercules lived

to be 199 years old...

uh, in doggy years.

I was the last one

to move away.

But when I did,

the sandlot was still there.

After Benny pickled The Beast,

his reputation spread all over town.

From then on, he was known as

Benny "The Jet"Rodriguez.

And the nickname stuck with him

for the rest of his life.

[Announcer] Now pinch running

for the Los Angeles Dodgers,

Benny "TheJet"Rodriguez!

It is the clutch situation

of the season.

They say The Jets lost

a step or two,

but I wouldn't be surprised

to see some fireworks here.

The Jets got

a suicide lead and...

And there he goes! He's stealing home!

I don't believe it!

- He's stealing home!

- [Cheering]

He's stealing home,

and they don't see him! The pitch!

He's hit the dirt!

He's safe! Safe!

- Oh, my God!

- [Cheering]

Safe! Safe! Safe!

I don't believe it! The Jet

stole home! The Jet stole home!

[Cheering Continues]

[Cheering Continues]

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