Fifteen Years of The Sandlot

I am back again this week with my tribute to fifteen years of one of the best baseball movies of all-time, The Sandlot. Three players down, 6 to go. Let's get right to the starting pitcher for the sandlot crew.

KENNY DENUNEZ - The lone pitcher of the team, was far and away the most stylish kid of the bunch with his great wardrobe. You got what you expected from DeNunez on the field and off. He was a cocky, brash kid that loved nothing better than embarrassing you at the plate, like most pitchers do. DeNunez was very famous in the movie for the way he dressed, and being the token black kid with a latin name, I really never understood that. The best was the day he went to the mound against Benny and Benny hit the cover off the ball. Not only was he wearing khaki pants and a button up on the field, but how he was able to shrug off that kind of scene, which could have ruined his baseball career, really says a lot about his character. But, one thing that did bother me about him was the fact that he did nothing at all to help Smalls get the baseball over the fence. If you watch the film look for him during those scenes, hiding in the background is where he is. Which means to me that he really never liked the kid.

Kenny DeNunez was played by long time child actor Brandon Quintin Adams. The twenty-nine-year-old Adams was most famous for his role in the first two Mighty Duck movies, and has been on the big screen since the age of ten with his last one being in 2005. Adams started his career being in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker where he played Zeke 'Baby Bad' Michael in the Badder segment, a parody of Jackson's classic video for "Bad". He also was in the "Smooth Criminal" short film as well as the television shows Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Martin. As of today Adams is currently back home in Kansas and is a lesser known rapper, performing under the name B. Lee. As the story goes, DeNunez played in the minor league farm system, making it up to Triple A, but was never able to make it to the Majors. He currently owns his own business. He is a father and in his spare time coaches the little league team his sons play on, The Heaters. This is just a shot in the dark, but I am thinking why he never made it to the Majors was because he threw over a 100 pitches every day all summer long! And he ended up becoming one of those "father coaches" that acted like an idiot coaching his kids, wanting them to make it to the pros since he never got there which ultimately shortened their baseball careers. DeNunez, recently just underwent shoulder surgery for the 5th time this summer.