Harvey Girls Forever! presents: The Sandlot (Part 1)

## Plot

Bobby the Elder moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Richie takes the Elder 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.

## Characters

* Bobby the Elder as (Scotty Smalls, Narrator)
* Richie Rich as (Benjamin Franklin "Benny The Jet" Rodriguez)
* Max Tennasynn as (Hamilton "Ham" Porter)
* Michael as (Michael "Squints" Palledorous)
* Patches as (Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan)
* Gerald as (Kenny DeNunez)
* Vin as (Tommy "Repeat" Timmons)
* Fredo Gupta as (Timmy Timmons)
* Melvin Wisenheimer as (Bertram Grover Weeks)
* Crush4U's Xaden as (Bill)
* Holly Smith as (Scotty's Mom)
* Adrian as (Phillps)
* Zoe as (Wendy Peffercorn)
* Dollar the Dog as (Hercules "The Beast")
* Mr. Plump as (Mr. Mertle)
* Crush4U's Auden as (Babe Ruth)
* Additional Kids 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
* This story has some fanon characters and some main characters.

## Story

Setting: Harvey Street, Oklahoma, 1962

Start of Part 1

(Scene: Stadium)

(A man with white hair walking in the stadium for work, The man is a grown up Bobby. 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, Auden from Crush4U raised his arm and pointed to the center field bleachers. No one believed it, because nobody had ever done it before. But The Crush was calling his shot. On the next pitch, the Great Crushino hit a towering home run. And even although he'd been a hero before that, that's pretty much how he became a legend.

(Bobby turns to look at a picture of him and his friends when they were kids.)

Narrator: Thirty years later, a kid named Richie Rich 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. Richie 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 white hair is unpacking things. The boy is an 11 year old Bobby 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.

(Bobby sees Richie walk down the street. Richie turns and sees Bobby. Bobby waves to Richie. Richie 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: Bobby's house at night)

(Bobby 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.

(Bobby knocks on the door to the room his stepdad is in.)

Bill: Yeah?

Bobby: Ummm... Dad? I-I mean Bill? Remember you.. you promised you'd teach me to play catch?

Bill: Mm-hmm.

Bobvy: Ummmm... w-well, could you teach me?

Bill: Yeah. Sure. Okay.

Bobby: Thanks.

(Bobby looks at the trophies. Bill turns and looks at him.)

Bobby: Sorry.

(Bobby exits but peeks back in. Bill puts a baseball with Auden from Crush4U's name on it on a stand.)

(Scene: Bobby's house in day)

(Bobby 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.

(Bobby walks over to watch them play.)

Narrator: It was the greatest place I'd ever seen anyway.

Fredo: Melvin!

(Fredo throws the ball to Melvin. Bobby walks into the open.)

Narrator: But they were good, really good.

Fredo: Come on, Melvin!

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.

Patches: Come on! Come on!

(Patches 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.

Richie: Squints!

(Richie 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.

Max: Nice catch!

Gil: Yeah.

(Bobby 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. Bobby stares at it wondering what is happening. It then stops. Gerald pitches the ball and Richie hits it. The ball flies through the air.)

Max: Watch out!

(Bobby turns around. The ball is flying at him. He tries to catch it but...)

Bobby: Aaaahhhh!

(He falls over. The other boys expect for Richie laugh at him.)

Bobby: Okay, I'll get it! Get it.

(He starts to walk over to where the ball is.)

Bobby: 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!

(Bobby 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!

(Bobby tries to throw it but it barely goes anywhere. The boys expect for Richie burst into laughter. Richie looks disappointed. Bobby is upset.)

Nonny: My life's over.

(Bobby runs away from the sandlot. Richie feels bad for Bobby while the other boys laugh.)

(Scene: Bobby's house at night)

(A toy robot is being operated.)

Narrator: If it wasn't for Richie, 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, Richie 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 Bobby's door. The door opens and Bobby's mom is there.)

Holly: Night, hon.

(A small ball from Bobby's project flies at his mother and bonks her head.)

Bobby: Oh, I'm sorry, Mom. It was an accident.

Holly: Bobby, have you made any friends yet?

Bobby: No.

Holly: Why not, honey?

Bobby: 'Cause I'm still new.

Holly: I don't want you sitting around in here all summer fiddling with this stuff like you did last summer and the one before.I know you're smart, and I'm proud of you. I want you to get out into the fresh air and make some friends. Run around, scrape your knees, get dirty. Climb trees, hop fences. Get into trouble, for crying out loud. Not too much, but some. You have my permission. How many mothers do you know who say something like that to their sons?

(Bobby chuckles.)

Bobby: Well, none mothers, I guess.

Holly: Honey, I want you to make some friends this summer. Lots of them.

Bobby: Yeah, I know. But I'm not good at anything, Mom. Face it, I'm just an egghead.

Holly: Honey, you'll always be just an egghead with an attitude like that.

(She exits the room.)

(Scene: The next day at Bobby's house)

(Bobby's mom is making breakfast. Bobby enters and throws out his finished breakfast.)

Holly: Well? Well?

Bobby: He's too busy, Mom.

Holly: Oh, no, honey, he's not. He has some time. You go on back out there and ask him.

(Bobby goes to the dining room where his stepdad is eating breakfast.)

Bobby: Uh, Bill, uh...

Bill: Yeah?

Bobby: I mean, Dad, uh, can we... I mean, could you, like you said, teach me to play catch?

Bill: Yeah. Sure. But I gotta get this done, okay?

Bobby: Okay, thanks.

(His mom was standing at the doorway watching. Bobby turns to leave but his mom stops him.)

Holly: Bill?

Bill: Yeah?

Holly: Uh, couldn't you take a break and teach him now?

Bobby: Mom, really, it's okay.

Bill: Honey, I said I would, and I will, but I'm under the gun here.

Holly: How long could it take? Can't you spare half an hour and show him now?

Bobby: Mom, really, it's okay.

(Bill looks at his watch.)

Bill: All right. Okay. I'll get my glove.

(He exits to get his glove.)

Holly: See? I told you.

Bobby: Oh, great.

(Bobby and Bill go to the backyard.)

Bill: All right, Bobby, get down to that end of the yard.

Bobby: Okay.

(Bobby goes to the other end.)

Bill: Now, the key to this game is keeping your eye on the ball. No matter whether you're in the field or at bat, eye on the ball, okay?

Bobby: All right. Uh, yeah. I think so.

Bill: Where the ball goes, your glove should go. Got it?

Bobby: Okay.

Bill: Okay. All right.

(Bill throws the ball to Bobby. The ball sails past Bobby and hits the fence.)

Bobby: Darn. Sorry.

Bill: It's all right. All right.

(Bobby walks to Bill to give him the ball.)

Bobby: Um... Uh, here.

Bill: Okay.

Bobby: Okay, I'm ready.

Bill: Eye on the ball, okay? Got it?

Bobby: Okay.

Bill: If the ball moves, move your glove. Got it?

Bobby: Yeah.

Bill: All right. Here we go.

(Bill throws the ball. Bobby reaches his glove out but again the ball sails by him and hits the fence. Bobby runs to get it.)

Bill: Okay. You just need a bigger glove. Throw it back to me this time. Throw it back.

(Bobby throws the ball and it lands in front of Bill. Bill reaches down and gets it.)

Bill: Okay. Bobby, keep your eye on the ball.

Bobby: Okay, got it.

Bill: Okay.

(Bill throws the ball. Bobby reaches out his glove and catches the ball but it hits his eye.)

Bobby: Oh!

(Scene; Kitchen)

(Bobby and Bill enter with Bobby holding his eye. He is in pain.)

Bobby: Ow! Oh, my eye! Ow! Ow! Oh! Ow! Ow!

Holly: What happened?

Bobby: My eye.

Holly: Honey, get some ice. Ice.

Bill: No, I got it.

(Bill takes a cold steak and press it against Bobby's eye.)

Bill: Here you go.

Holly: Those were for dinner.

Bobby: Oh!

Bill: Just hold it up there. Nice and hard. Press it against.

(Bobby does as he is told.)

Bill: Yeah. Bobby: I just took my eye off the ball, Mom.

Bill: Yeah, but you caught it. Just keep that on for, like, an hour. It'll still be black, but it won't swell. Sorry. Gotta watch out for that curve.

End of Part 1.