Daily News | The Phillies drafted Kelly Dugan off the set of an Adam Sandler movie. He’s still chasing his Hollywood ending.
He grew up on his father’s movie sets, many of which were Sandler flicks. So it was hard to find a better place for Dugan to be when his dream came true than with his dad on a set.Grown Ups,
Dugan was hitting .326 last July — the same average he finished the previous season with — when he suffered a stress fracture in his foot while tracking down a fly ball. He was leading the Atlantic League with 23 homers and had a .686 slugging percentage. It finally felt like he was working his way back to the minor leagues.
“You don’t make much money in the Atlantic League. I said, ‘We’ll back you. If you have a dream and want to pursue it, we’re there. We’ll back you up.’” “Hopefully my career won’t be that rocky,” Dugan joked with reporters after arriving in South Philly. “On every baseball field he went from the time he was in tee-ball to his last game in high school, he was either the best player on the field or one of the two best. That’s just the way it was,” his father said. “Then he gets there and every guy there is that guy. It’s an awakening.”Adam Sandler joined Tobias Harris, other NBA stars for a ‘real Philly’ pickup game while filming ‘Hustle’
“I go to this office and knock on the door. The door opens and it’s Sandler,” Dugan said. “He goes ‘You?’ I go ‘You?’ He turns to everyone in the room and I’m still at the door. He says ‘This guy brought me in four times and kept trying to get me this movie. Every time I went back in, I said, ‘Man, they’re bringing me in again. I know I’m getting this job.’ Everyone was laughing. He turns to me and said, ‘You stood up for me. You got this job.’ I wasn’t even in the door. That’s who he is.
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