MLB: The Best of Baseball Player Spoofs and Sketches
By Manny Gómez
“The Sandlot” by the Brew Crew, 2018
“The Sandlot” is a classic 90’s movie and one of the best baseball films of all time. the Beauty of this reenactment is just how good the Brewer players actually are at redoing the whole thing. It’s almost scary how much Christian Yelich resembles Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, and Steve Vogt’s take on Hamilton “Ham” Porter is perfect!
SPOILER ALERT: This scene is one the pivotal scenes in the movie. It’s the what sets up the inciting incident that keeps the story moving forward. The rest of the movie relies on this group of friends finding creative ways to retrieve another baseball that flies over the fence.
“The Sandlot” by the Yankees, 2015
This reenactment came as a big surprise to Yankees fans when it came out in 2015. Aside from surprise appearances on “SNL” and “Seinfeld” by players like Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, David Wells, and others in the late 90’s, the most buttoned up organization in MLB almost seemed robotic. This reenactment gave fans a different look at the Yankees.
SPOILER ALERT: This reenactment shows the most important scene in “The Sandlot”. After losing a baseball to a Benny Rodriguez home run, “Smalls” claims that he has a replacement. What the group of friends didn’t know is that the ball was “signed” by Babe Ruth.