The sun burst through the clouds beating back the last belligerent end of a storm that wouldn't quit Saturday at George M. Steinbrenner field. A bottom of the first grand-slam blast from catcher, Peter O'Brien, had put the Tampa Yankees up 4 to 1 against the Brevard County Manatees, but the umpires called the players off the field during the fifth because of rain. The delay lasted a little more than an hour and the game never got to resume and lead to a Yankees victory, but that’s not all we were there to see.
We were there to see Squints slip Wendy Peffercorn some tongue, to see Benny “the Jet” Rodriguez lace up his PF Flyers and haul ass from the child devouring , baseball shredding dog known as, the Beast. We were there to watch The Sandlot.
