Here at The Stew, we love us some baseball movies, and perhaps none more than "The Sandlot." That hardly makes us unique, though. Everybody loves "The Sandlot," including, apparently, the New York Yankees.
What you'll find above is a wonderful little skit where current Yanks players recreate the famous Babe Ruth scene from the movie. It stars Brett Gardner as Smalls, learning that he just offered up a ball autographed by Ruth to Hercules, the feared ball-chomping dog that lives beyond the sandlot's fence.
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Dellin Betances, Jacoby Ellsbury, C.C. Sabathia and Didi Gregorius play members of "The Sandlot" crew, but perhaps most notable is Brian McCann, who's in the Ham Porter role and actually seems like he could be a slimmed-down, grown-up Ham.
A-Rod, however, gets no love again from the Yanks. He couldn't have played Benny the Jet?
If you don't know the original scene (shame on you!) or just want to see it again, here you go:
If you missed it the first-time around, The Stew did an extensive retrospective on "The Sandlot" for its 20th anniversary in 2013, including interviews with a couple of the film's stars and writer/director/narrator David M. Evans.
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