Hvilken slags hund var medvirkende i the sandlot?
engelsk mastiff
The Sandlot
Imens ligger der bag en mur for enden af sandpladsen en baggård, som bebos af "Udyret", en engelsk mastiff, der er så stor og vild, at den er blevet en legende i nabolaget. En dag lander drengenes sidste bold i bæstets baghave. Smalls forsøger at hente den, men de andre, der kender til Udyret, stopper ham. Om aftenen fortæller de ham alt om Udyret, og at hans ejer, hr. Mertle, fik ham, da han kun var en hvalp, da tyve hærgede hans skrotplads, Mertle's Acres. Efter et par uger blev hvalpen til Udyret; han blev enormt stor og aggressiv og dræbte og fortærede tyvene med knogler og det hele. Til sidst fik Squints' bedstefar, som var politichef på det tidspunkt, hr. Mertle til at lænke udyret op i baghaven og holde det under sit hus for evigt. Smalls erfarer også, at mange baseballbolde ender i baghaven, og så forsvinder de bare.
English Mastiff
The Sandlot
Meanwhile, behind a wall at the end of the sandlot is a backyard inhabited by "the Beast", an English Mastiff so large and savage that it has become a neighborhood legend. One day, the boys' last ball lands in the Beast's backyard. Smalls attempts to retrieve it, but the others, knowing about the Beast, stop him. That evening, they tell him all about the Beast, and that his owner, Mr. Mertle, got him when he was just a puppy when thieves were plaguing his junkyard, Mertle's Acres. After a couple of weeks, the puppy became the Beast; he grew enormous and aggressive, killing and devouring the thieves, bones and all. Eventually, Squints' grandfather, who was the police chief at the time, had Mr. Mertle chain up the Beast in the backyard and keep him under his house forever. Smalls also learns that many baseballs end up in the backyard, and then they just disappear.
The Sandlot