The baseball flying at Nonny.
Plot[]
Nonny Pirruccello moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Gil takes Pirruccello under his wing, and soon he's part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him.
Cast (Characters from the real movie)[]
- Nonny as (Scotty Smalls, Narrator)
- Gil as (Benjamin Franklin "Benny The Jet" Rodriguez)
- Dean as (Hamilton "Ham" Porter)
- Michael as (Michael "Squints" Palledorous)
- Darius as (Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan)
- Goby as (Kenny DeNunez)
- Pablo as (Tommy "Repeat" Timmons)
- Brett as (Timmy Timmons)
- Trevor as (Bertram Grover Weeks)
- Mr. Pirruccello as (Bill)
- Mrs. Pirruccello as (Scotty's Mom)
- Tobias as (Phillps)
- Sandy as (Wendy Peffercorn)
- Bubble Puppy as (Hercules "The Beast")
- Mr. Langoustine as (Mr. Mertle)
- Martin as (Babe Ruth)
- Crabs , Lobsters, Snails as (Other characters)
Information[]
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family
- Rating; PG for a bit of romance, a bit of violence, some cursing, little use of drugs, and for possible scary scenes
- Type of film: Sports comedy, Coming-of-age
Trivia[]
- This is based on the 1993 movie "The Sandlot." You can read about it on Wikipedia or IMDb
- Oona, Deema, and Molly don't appear because most of the characters are boys.
- This story has some fanon characters and some main characters.
Story[]
Setting: Bubbletucky, Texas 1962
Start of Part 1
(Scene: Stadium)
(A man with orange hair and blue google in walking in the stadium for work, The man is a grown up Nonny. He enters his office.)
Narrator: 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, Martin Lobster raised his arm and pointed to the center field bleachers. No one believed it, because nobody had ever done it before. But The Lobs was calling his shot. On the next pitch, the Great Lobino hit a towering home run. And even although he'd been a hero before that, that's pretty much how he became a legend.
(Nonny turns to look at a picture of him and his friends when they were kids.)
Narrator: Thirty years later, a kid named Gil Gordon 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.
(Scene: Schoolyard Baseball field)
(It is now 1962. 30 years ago from the first scene. Gil is playing baseball at his school. He is up at bat. He hits the ball and runs the bases. He is then stopped between 2nd and 3rd base. His friends come out to try to stop it. He then runs to home base and wins. The other team is not happy about that.)
(Scene: Neighborhood)
(The gang separates and they go to their homes. A different boy with orange hair and blue google is unpacking things. The boy is an 11 year old Nonny who has moved into the neighborhood.)
Narrator: 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. So with something that incredible going on, it should've started off with loads of great things happening for me, but it didn't.
(Nonny sees Gil walk down the street. Gil turns and sees Nonny. Nonny waves to Gil. Gil nods back to him and goes home.)
Narrator: I was from another state, and I didn't have a single friend in a thousand miles. 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, 'cause I had zip time to make friends before summer. And that's about where it all started.
(Scene: Nonny's house at night)
(Nonny is making himself a drink.)
Narrator: My real dad died when I was just a little kid. My mom had married Bill about a year before we moved to the valley. At the time, he and I were still getting used to each other.
(Nonny knocks on the door to the room his stepdad is in.)
Bill: Yeah?
Nonny: Ummm... Dad? I-I mean Bill? Remember you.. you promised you'd teach me to play catch?
Bill: Mm-hmm.
Nonmy: Ummmm... w-well, could you teach me?
Bill: Yeah. Sure. Okay.
Nonny: Thanks.
(Nonny looks at the trophies. Bill turns and looks at him.)
Nonny: Sorry.
(Nonny exits but peeks back in. Bill puts a baseball with Martin Lobster's name on it on a stand.)
(Scene: Nonny's house in day)
(Nonny runs out the door with a plastic glove and puts on his tan baseball hat as he runs. He runs down the street passed some stores and then behind a fence to the sandlot.)
Narrator: I'd followed them to the sandlot once after school. I'd never seen any place like it. It was like their own little baseball kingdom or something.
(Nonny walks over to watch them play.)
Narrator: It was the greatest place I'd ever seen anyway.
Brett: Trevor!
(Brett throws the ball to Trevor. Nonny walks into the open.)
Narrator: But they were good, really good.
Brett: Come on, Trevor!
Narrator: And all I had was a plastic toy mitt that my grandmother gave me for my birthday when I was six. But when I finally got up enough guts to go out there and try and make friends, I found out that they never kept score, they never chose sides, they never even really stopped playing the game. It just went on forever. Every day they picked up where they left off the day before. It was like an endless dream game.
Darius: Come on! Come on!
(Darius throws the ball after he catches it.)
Narrator: There was only eight of them, so they didn't have a whole team. So even though I didn't know how to play, I figured I could be the ninth man and maybe just stand in the outfield somewhere and take up space.
Gil: Squints!
(Gil hits the ball.)
Narrator: Of course, if I'd have known what was gonna happen when I got there,
Michael: I got it! (Michael catches the ball.)
Narrator: I probably never would've gone.
Dean: Nice catch!
Gil: Yeah.
(Nonny turns to look at the fence. He hears rustling and barking as if there is a dog behind there. There is also an chattering and banging and growling. The fence shakes. Nonny stares at it wondering what is happening. It then stops. Goby pitches the ball and Gil hits it. The ball flies through the air.)
Dean: Watch out!
(Nonny turns around. The ball is flying at him. He tries to catch it but...)
Nonny: Aaaahhhh!
(He falls over. The other boys expect for Gil laugh at him.)
Nonny: Okay, I'll get it! Get it.
(He starts to walk over to where the ball is.)
Nonny: Don't be a goofus. Don't be a goofus! Don't be a goofus!
(He gets to where the ball is. He hears growling behind the fence.)
Michael (in distance): Throw the ball back! Come on!
(Nonny reaches for the ball. The growling starts up again. He quickly snatches the ball and runs from the fence. He looks back at it and then back at the boys.)
Michael: We are waiting! Come on! Throw it! Come on, toss me the ball!
(Nonny tries to throw it but it barely goes anywhere. The boys expect for Gil burst into laughter. Gil looks disappointed. Nonny is upset.)
Nonny: My life's over.
(Nonny runs away from the sandlot. Gil feels bad for Nonny while the other boys laugh.)
(Scene: Nonny's house at night)
(A toy robot is being operated.)
Narrator: If it wasn't for Gil, I never would've made a single friend that summer, 'cause all the rest of those guys thought I was a lost cause. Even before we became friends, Gil and me were connected, connected for the one moment later that summer when I'd get us all into the biggest pickle any of us had ever seen.
(Someone knocks at Nonny's door. The door opens and Nonny's mom is there.)
Mrs. Pirruccello: Night, hon.