The Sandlot Review
The Sandlot is what looks like an empty housing lot where a group of children have setup a baseball diamond where they play almost every day but now find themselves one player short…
They enlist Scotty Smalls (played by Tom Guiry) who (at first) really isn’t good at the game as a player and this group of kids develop a nice friendship over time.
As Smalls gets better at the game and gets closer to his friends, he is told about a local legend concerning a house beside the lot… The house is guarded by a huge monster and nobody has ever managed to get a baseball back when it went over the fence…
When the kids lose their last ball over the fence, Smalls goes to his house to borrow his Step Dad’s ball signed by a “lady” called Babe Ruth (who most people will know, is a man who played for the Yankee’s, who most people consider the best ballplayer ever)…
The other kids, who all know exactly who Babe Ruth is, don’t notice the writing on the ball. They put Smalls in to bat and when he hits his first home run everyone is delighted, except Smalls… As the ball goes sailing over the fence Smalls breaks the news to the other kids and they break the news to him that the ball he just lost is priceless…
The kids decide that they have to get the ball back and after a load of wonderfully amusing schemes, things really get interesting when the kids find themselves face-to-face with “the monster”…
A great family movie whether you know anything about baseball, or not. Plus, with quotes like: “You’re killin’ me Smalls!” - what better childhood movie could there be? It really makes you look back on your youth and remember all the wonder and magic the world once held. 
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