Bertram got really into the ’60s, and no one ever saw him again.
In the classic 1993 film “The Sandlot,” Bertram Weeks is one of the young baseball players and friends in the group. The movie, set in the summer of 1962, follows a group of young boys who spend their days playing baseball at the local sandlot. As the film concludes, the narrator, an older version of the main character Scotty Smalls, provides an epilogue for each of the characters, explaining what happened to them as they grew up.
When it comes to Bertram, the narrator reveals that he became fascinated with the counterculture of the 1960s. He eventually got so involved with the music and the vibe of that era that he seemingly disappeared into it, with the implication being that he fully embraced the hippie lifestyle. The film uses a humorous and somewhat mysterious tone to suggest that Bertram’s new interests led him away from the group, and they lost touch with him. The line “no one ever saw him again” is a playful exaggeration, indicating that Bertram’s life took a very different path from his friends, and he became a part of the cultural movements that defined the ’60s.
