Catering to his love of baseball, the kid’s mom directs him towards the television one dreary day to watch a movie – about baseball. “The Sandlot,” it was called and it shaped the kid’s life from that day forward. He weaved the story of 1960’s children of the game into his own baseball life. Out with the Nike shoes, in with a fresh set of Converse “Chuck Taylor” All-Stars, the “shoes guaranteed to make a kid run faster and jump higher.” Goodbye dislike for chocolate. Hello tons of tootsie rolls in one cheek as pretend chewing tobacco. And of course he always had to be playing with a baseball signed “Babie Ruth,” a testament to Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez’s unique spelling of the Babe’s name. The kid had been officially transformed from an obsessed tee-baller, to a walking tribute to the ultimate children’s baseball movie.
Years later the kid has his first love interest, a girl who incidentally loved "The Sandlot" as well. One of the factors in the beginning of their relationship was his ability to repeat word for word so many parts of the movie. Sometimes baseball geeks do win out.
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