Sandlot Script
There is one all-time greatest moment in the history of sports,
and it happened in the 1932 World Series.
The story goes that in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs,
a full count and the tying run on base,
Babe Ruth raised his arm and pointed to the center field bleachers.
No one believed it, because nobody had ever done it before.
But The Babe was calling his shot.
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 a legend.
Thirty years later, a kid named Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez...
became a neighborhood legend.
It was in the greatest summer of my life...
when he taught me to play baseball,
and he became my best friend.
And he got me out of the biggest pickle I'd ever be in.
['50s Rock]
It's finger poppin'
Poppin' time
I feel so good
And that's a real good sign
[ Kids Shouting ]
Here comes Mary Here comes Sue
Here comes Johnny and Bobby too
It's finger pop
Poppin' time
I feel so good
- And that's a real good sign - Go! Go! Go!
[ Shouting Continues ]
I feel so good
And that's a real good sign
[ Snapping Fingers ]
Come over at : .
All right. See you later.
I 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.
It was the same summer that Dodger Maury Wills would break the stolen bases record.
So with something that incredible going on,
it should've started off with loads of great things happening for me,
but it didn't.
I was from another state, and I didn't have a single friend in a thousand miles.
It was a lousy way to end up the fifth grade,
