The Baseball Player with Pigtails

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McKenzie

There is one all-time greatest moment in sports history, and it happened at the World Series, in 1932.
The story is that in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs, a full count and the tying run on base. The great Babe Ruth raised his arm and pointed to the center field bleachers. Not one single person believed it, because nobody had ever done it before.
But The Babe was calling his shot that day. And on the next pitch, the Great Bambino hit a towering home run. And even although he'd been a hero before that, that's pretty much how he became the legend we know today.
Thirty years later, a kid and friend named Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez... became a neighborhood legend. It was in the best summer of my life... when he taught my adopted brother to play baseball, and he became more than my best friend. And he got me and my (adopted) brother out of the biggest pickle we've ever be in.

So we moved the San Fernando Valley. I use to live here till my new mother and my egghead brother adopted me. I lived here for the first 7 years of my life.

We moved to the neighborhood two weeks before school let out.
It was the same summer that Dodger Maury Wills would break the stolen bases record.

Right now me and Scotty is unpacking the moving truck. I tie my hair up in pigtails, it being so long it went to my waist even when it was you. I grabbed a box from the truck.
"Hey, Kenz?" I heard from Scotty, who was behind me.
"Yes, Scotty?" I said turning and walk to him with a box in my arms. My long blonde hair flowing behind me as I walk to him. I was not like the other girls I don't wear dress, I wear jeans and baseball shirts. Right now I wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans(that go to mid-thigh), a baseball and black vans.
"Found your baseball stuff." He told me. I shifted my gray orbs to the box he had opened. And I saw it was a box with a few bats, a glove and some baseballs.
"Ok thanks." I turn back around to grab another box from the truck. I turned back and place the box down next to Scotty. Out of the corner of my eye I see Scotty waves at someone. I look up to see who's he was waving at.
I saw a boy with black hair and brown eyes, he was Hispanic looking. He gave a sup nod to my brother. Than saw me and nodded. He turned around and walk into his house. He looked very fermiler to me. I just shook my head and turned back to my work. Who was that boy?

Time skip
I started to unpack my things in my room. The sun was just setting. My room was a soft blue and some purple.
I opened a box the had the word 'sandlot (McKenzie room)' written on it, I smiled at it remembering that point in time.
I open it and the first thing I see was two baseball jerseys, thay were we folded, showing the number and name. I toke them both out, smiling more. I looked at the first one it was white with blue letters. I looked on the back 'Pigtails' was on the back with the number 3 under it. I put it on my bed and toke out the other one. It was the same accept it said 'Rodriguez' with the number 30 on the back of it. I put both of them on the left bed post at the top of my bed.
I went back to the box. "Hey, Kenz." I look up to see Scotty holding another box. "Where do you want your art stuff?" I walk over to him and toke the box out of his hands, giving him a smile and a nodded. He walk back from where he came from. I closed my bedroom door and put the box on my desk. I walk over to the box I was at first.
I toke out a baseball with a bunch of scribbles on it that was suppose to be names. I put it on my special shelf(It's the thing in the picture), with the rest of my baseball that are sined, but this ball is the best of them all. I ran my thumb over a name it look like a 'B' and some other letters.
I toke a melt box out next. I open it and it had lots of pictures in it. I toke on out and it was a bunch of boys and a girl in a old baseball dugout. On the back it said 'Sandlot boys and girl in the dugout, 1955'. Seven years since this picture was taken. The same year I moved.
I toke another one out and it was a girl around 2 or 3 with a big dog. On the back of this one it said 'McKenzie 'Baby' Ruth and Hercules 'The Dog', 1951. I put the metal box on my desk with the lid off.
The last thing in the box was a skateboard. I toke it out and on the underside it said 'The Sandlot Girl' and it had a baseball and a bat on it. I smiled and put it next to my window, smiling down at it. I see so many memories.
I heard a knock on my door. I walk over to it to see mom standing there. "Hi mom." I said walking over to my desk and taking out all my favorite books.
"Is it going to be hard making friends, because your not going to school?" Mom asked as she came over.
"Is don't think so mom. I think I well be fine." I told her as I go over to my book shelf, putting up some of my books.
"You never told me who these boys are." She told me I turned around to see her holding up one with me and my best friend. We are at home plate. The boy as a baseball bat and I had a baseball. The boy was taller than me, so he was behind and had his arms around my shoulder. We were smiling like idiots.
"Read the back." I told her. She flips it over.
"Dear Pigtails,
Always remember where you learned to play the game you have the heart for. Remember the team, the lot, the game, and the Beast. Where every you go just keep on playing. Keep your head held high. If anyone tells you that girl can't play. Show thay you can paly, that girls can play. Hope one day our roads well cross paths again.
Your favorite batter.
McKenzie(6 years old) and Benny(7 years old), 1954" Mom said.
"There you go. Now I'm still have 4 other boxes to go through and I like to do it alone. Sooo...."
"Ok, I'm leaving. I love you." She said as I push her out the door. I laughed and toke another box and unpacked it.