There is one all-time greatest history moments in 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, Babe Ruth raised his arm and pointed to the center field bleachers.

No one believed it, because nobody had ever done it before.

But The Babe was calling his shot. On the next pitch, the Great Bambino hit a towering four hundred- foot home run. And even although he'd been a hero before that, that's pretty much how he became a legend.

Thirty years later, a kid named Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez became a neighborhood legend.

It was the greatest summer of my life, when he taught me how to play baseball, and he became my best friend. And he got me out of the biggest pickle I'd ever be in.

~8~

Adeline Michael-Davids bit her lip nervously as Benny tapped the bat to his feet two times as he stood at the home plate before bringing it up. Their team was so close to winning that Adeline could almost smell victory. Now all they needed was for Benny to hit a homer, or at least something good, and Adeline prayed that he was on his game today. But let's be real here, when was he not. Even when he had a fever and was hacking his lungs up, Benny still managed to hit a homer. The crack of the ball against the bat caught Adeline's attention and she watched as Benny raced to each of the bases. By the time he got to third, the other team had gotten the ball and Benny was stuck with either staying at third or stealing home.

"Go! Go! Go!" Adeline heard Ham shout as they watched Benny shuffle in between the two bases and Adeline began to chew harder on her lip, not noticing that it was bleeding.

"Come on, Benny!" Adeline shouted and nearly let out a shriek of happiness as he stole home.

Racing out to congratulate him, the team all gave Benny a high-five or a pat on the back while Adeline tackled him into a hug.

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 incredible going on, it should've started off with loads of great things happening for me, but it didn't.

"See you tomorrow, Ham." Adeline said as she made her way to her house, Benny by her side since they lived right next to one another.

"Come over at nine," Benny reminded him before Ham headed towards his front door.

"Yeah, and don't forget to bring the ball." Adeline added, smiling brightly as Ham gave her a thumbs up, acknowledging what she said.

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.

"Hey, Benny, we getting new neighbor's or something?" Adeline asked, stopping as she looked at the U-Haul truck that was parked in someone's driveway. That house had been empty for a year now and Adeline was almost positive that it would never get sold. Guess she was wrong.

Sensing that Adeline had stopped, Benny gave a sigh before turning around and facing the once- empty house. She was right. A small U-Haul truck was parked in the driveway and boxes were nearly everywhere, but he couldn't seem to see anybody.

"Oh," Adeline as her eyes lit up in excitement as a boy moved out from behind the small truck, "Look, there's a person."

The small, blond-haired boy who had walked out from behind the truck placed a box on top of a stack of other boxes before sighing. Looking up, the boy noticed Adeline and Benny and gave the two a hesitant wave, slightly ecstatic when the girl gave him one back but felt his stomach sink when the boy next to her just gave him a nod. Maybe making friends wasn't going to be that easy.

And that's about where it all started…

~8~.

Adeline rolled her eyes as Ham tossed Benny the baseball from where she stood at shortstop. She didn't come all this way for Benny to pass every ball to everyone except her… and it's not like he didn't know what he was doing. Thinking it over, she realized that it was probably because she drank the last pop in the fridge last night when she promised Benny that he could it. It's not her fault that her youngest sister, Haley, had drank the others. As far as she knew, she had left three bottles of pop in the fridge for them to have once they got home from school.

"Come on, Benny." Adeline whined as Benny hit the ball to Bertram, "Is this because I drank the last bottle of pop? You know, I can always buy you a soda after this."

She could practically feel Benny rolling his eyes and she couldn't help but give a pout. All she wanted to do was play a nice game of ball, go home, eat some dinner, play with Haley, and sleep.

"Fine, I'll leave then." Adeline retorted before gasping and quickly crouching as a ball flew over her head. Standing back up, she stared at Benny in shock before scolding him, "Benny! I could have died!"

Quickly turning around, Adeline raced to grab the ball, which hadn't landed very far from where she stood, before throwing it with all her might at Benny, who had to jump out of the way. She wasn't oblivious to the fact that the boys were laughing around her. It wasn't like this was a rare occurrence at the Sandlot. Adeline and Benny had been known each other since they were in diapers and the two friends often liked to teased one another.

"Addie!" Benny responded dramatically, "You could have killed me!"

Rolling her eyes, Adeline pounded her fist into her glove, "Come on, Rodriguez, let's play for real."

Shooting her a smile, Benny hit the ball to her and Adeline caught it before throwing it Timmy who threw it to Ham. The process continued for a while until Adaline decided that she wanted to pitch for a bit and swapped places with Kenny.

"Ready, Rodriguez?" Adeline taunted as she spun the ball in her hand.

"Bring it, Michaels." Adaline gave Benny a sweet smile before pitching the ball and giving it a spin. The bat smacked into the ball and flew. Adeline's eyes followed the ball and immediately gasping as she saw a boy was standing directly under the ball.

"Watch out!" Ham shouted and the team watched as the boy gave a scream before falling as he tried to catch the ball.

Adeline frowned as the boys busted out laughing and quickly went to grab the ball when the boy shouted, "Okay, I'll get it!"

The team quieted down as the boy walked over to where the ball laid, and Adaline noticed that he had a slight limp to his leg and wondered if he had hurt his leg when he had fallen. The boy seemed to be taking a long time in getting the ball and Adeline couldn't help but roll her eyes as her team started to whine and complain for the boy to hurry up and get it. Once he did get it, however, he stood awkwardly before rearranging his posture and trying again. Adeline raised her eyebrow.

Pulling his arm back, the boy attempted to throw the ball and Adeline cringed when it didn't even land more than two feet in front of him. Looking back at Benny, Adeline shared a frown with him as their team burst out laughing again. Watching as the boy ran off, Adeline shared one last look with Benny before pulling her glove off and running out of the Sandlot.

"Come on, Addie!" She heard the team call from behind her, "We have a game to play."

"Addie, come back."

The whines grew fainter the further she ran out of the Sandlot and she gave a slight shriek as she tripped over a stick on the ground. Steadying herself, Adeline looked around and saw the boy was only a few feet away from her.

"Hey!" Adaline called as she started running again, "Hey, wait up!"

So, I don't really know how I feel about this.

I'm debating on whether or not I should delete it but I don't know.

Please review if you like it and want me to continue because I am seriously debating on deleting this story.

See you soon,

Ana