Saturday, February 6, 2016

#2 - Relational Leadership


The Sandlot

The Sandlot team always encourages and empowers the other teammates and they come together for the love of their game and their friendship. When Benny first invites Smalls to play with them and realizes Smalls has no idea how to play baseball, he tells Smalls "just stand there and stick your glove in the air, I'll take care of it." Later, when they're trying to get the Babe Ruth autographed ball back, they all work together and create ideas of how to get it back, they all work together and encourage each other to get more creative once their first few attempts don't work.
After Smalls makes the mistake of stealing his step-dad's Babe Ruth autographed ball, the whole Sandlot gang comes together and puts their creativity and ingenuity to the test for the purpose of getting the ball back from the Beast.
At first, Benny is the only one to want to include Smalls into the group, the other Sandlot kids were very wary of adding a new kid to their team. However after spending time with Smalls, the rest of the team included him and they came together as a group to beat their rival team, and ultimately get the Babe Ruth autographed ball back.
Obviously, the boys know that there is some sort of creature on the other side of the fence, but they don't want to bother it or anger it at all and they don't want to knock on Mr. Mertle's door. Their decision to not mess with the large potentially dangerous creature is pretty ethical on their part, they not only want to protect themselves and their teammates, but they also know not to anger the Beast.

2 comments:

  1. Julia- Awesome movie! Yeah, I agree with what you said how they all come together and get him to know about baseball then they all had to work together to get that Babe Ruth ball back together. One of the best classic movies out there... Killin me Smalls

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  2. Julia- I love this movie and the message it sends. I think that this is one of the best examples of inclusiveness there is as benny risks his standing on the team to help a kid who clearly wants to be there nut wont stand up for himself. He needed someone to do that for him and benny did that. Great example

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