:01:00
and she calls her brother Carl
to take him somewhere...
:01:03
anywhere, just to get
the kid out of the house.
:01:07
Uncle Carl didn't have
any children of his own...
:01:09
so he wasn't exactly
what youd call "kid sawy. "
:01:13
I'm not gonna have to change hi m
or anything, am I?
:01:16
Carl, look at him.
He's seven, you dope. Come here.
:01:19
Carl wasn't the kind of uncle
who was gonna take you to the circus...
:01:22
or the zoo or a puppet show...
:01:25
but he did know the greatest place
to bring any kid-
:01:28
The heart and soul of Boston,
Fenway Park.
:01:44
That was also the day I met Ben.
:01:46
The pretty boy with the glasses?
That's me, Al Waterman. I sell sponges.
:01:51
Now that's the Green Monster, kid.
:01:53
- Monster?
- Yep.
:01:55
I taught the boy
what I knew about the game...
:01:57
and Carl taught him what he knew.
:01:59
Hey, Zimmer, you idiot,
what are you batting this bum leadoff for?
:02:04
Dwight Evans parked
a couple homers, the Sox won...
:02:08
and by day's end, poor Ben had become
one of Gods most pathetic creatures-
:02:12
- a Red Sox fan.
- Wow!
:02:14
And that's where the story begins.
:02:18
Careful, kid.
They'll break your heart.
:02:52
You could have gone over right there.
Come on, you gotta be aggressive, man.
:02:55
- Take off the training wheels.
- Hey, I got a crowbar under the seat, okay?
:02:58
So don't make me
knock your teeth out.