After three great weeks going back in Deez' time capsule I am back again with a another tribute to the starting lineup of the great baseball movie, The Sandlot. We have finished with tributes to 4 starters thus far and all four didn't have nicknames. Well, the over the next two weeks I'll be giving you my tribute to the best nicknamed kids. Without further ado, here's the first.
ALAN "YEAH YEAH" MCCLENNAN - When it really comes down to it, there was only a handful of players on the team that really looked like a ballplayer, and you have to think that the starting shortstop was one of them. Alan "Yeah Yeah" dressed the part, looked the part, and god dammit played the part. His ability to turn two was so flawless to him that you couldn't pick another kid to play his position, including Benny. This goofy looking mouse was actually one of the coolest kids on the team. He got along with everyone, including Smalls, even after calling him a "jerk" upon meeting him the first time. You always see him standing or walking with a different kid on the team throughout the movie. He gave the razing and took the razing as well, even with the popular Benny telling him that he ran like a duck. Yeah Yeah and Benny had to be boys, because they were the only players to rock the actual PF Flyers while they played. What really pissed me off about this kid was the fact that he couldn't hold on to the ball when he was over the fence with the beast in front of him, still pisses me off. Your a shortstop, HOLD ON TO THE BALL! His classic lines always followed somebody else's. Like when Squints called Smalls a L7 weenie.
"Yeah. Yeah. Oscar Meyer even. Footlong! A weenie!"
Or when Benny says that Smalls makes a ninth person.
"Yeah. Yeah. So does my sister, but i didn't bring her along."
Yeah Yeah was played by 27 year old Marty York who was a child actor until 1997, and is still pursuing his acting career today in minor independent films. York's best role following The Sandlot was appearing on a few episodes of Boy Meets World. He was last seen in Los Angeles going to a local college to become a firefighter, but before that many people had seen him trying his stab at being a magician (pictured below, how the other pic is still him I have no idea). As the story goes, Alan's parents shipped him off to military school. After the army, he became one of the pioneering developers of bungee jumping for his role in trying to retrieve the ball in which he was held up to a high height and lowered down on a rubbery cord. I like to think that Yeah Yeah was a hit with the ladies in high school and ended up dropping out after getting a girl pregnant. The girl kept the baby thinking that he was going to be around but he wasn't and became a drunk at a local bar and would brag about playing with the Dodgers Benny Rodriguez while watching him on the tube with the other locals.
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