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If you’ve ever seen “A Christmas Story,” you’ll know what I mean when I say “The Sandlot” is a summertime version of the same vision. Both films are about gawky young adolescents who are trapped in a world they did not create and are trying their hardest to fit in while dealing with the most incredible vicissitudes.
Neither film has any connection to the mundane reality of the mundane real world; instead, both tap directly into a vein of nostalgia and memory that makes reality seem insignificant in comparison.
The Sandlot Quiz
The story of “The Sandlot” is set in a small American town in the early 1960s. Scott (Tom Guiry), a new boy in the neighborhood, desperately wants to fit in. A local sandlot team has eight players, and he could be the ninth if he could play baseball! He is unable. He’s so out of it that he has no idea who Babe Ruth was. He asks his stepfather to teach him to play catch (there is a quiet poignancy in being asked to be taught such a thing), and his stepfather agrees but puts it off, and then one day Scotty finds himself on the sandlot in left-center field, to his horror, with a fly ball descending on his head, which it bounces off of.
That would have been the end of his baseball career if it hadn’t been for the understanding of Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez, the best of the players, who patiently teaches Scotty what he needs to know, kicking off the best summer of his young life. Also, you will find out which character are you in this quiz.
It’s one of those hot and dusty summers, and the boys play baseball every day and occasionally go to the municipal swimming pool, where they fantasize about the impossible vision of the beautiful lifeguard in the red swimming suit. Terrors balance lust: behind the wall at the end of their sandlot is a backyard inhabited by the Beast, a large and ferocious dog who has become a neighborhood legend. We catch glimpses of it from time to time – a massive paw, slavering jowls – and it appears to be about the size of a dinosaur. Also, you must try to play The Sandlot Quiz.
One day, the boys’ last ball flies over the fence and into the Beast’s domain. Scotty comes to the rescue. He dashes home and borrows his stepfather’s ball, which happens to be autographed by Babe Ruth, a name that means nothing to him until this ball, too, is slammed over the fence, and the other players explain why his stepfather will be upset to learn that his trophy has become the Beast’s lunch.
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All of these events are told in a unique, quirky, off-center, and purposefully exaggerated manner. This isn’t your typical baseball movie about kids. It’s so out of the ordinary that it doesn’t even conclude with the sandlot team winning the Big Game. There isn’t even a Big Game in this film. (The one game they play is a slam dunk.) The film isn’t about winning and losing; it’s about growing up and facing your fears, and as the kids try one wacky plan after another to get the ball back, the story gradually drifts away from the realm of possibility and into the exaggerations that are common in childhood legends.
David Mickey Evans directed the film, which he co-wrote with Robert Gunter. Their tone and voice-over narration remind me of Jean Shepherd’s childhood memories in northern Indiana.
Memories become sharper, colors become more vibrant, events become more significant, and a life can be changed forever in the course of a sunny afternoon.
Too many children’s movies these days are infected with the virus of Winning, as if children are nothing more than underage pro athletes, and Vince Lombardi’s values prevail: it’s not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose. This is a film that deviates from that tradition by allowing its children to be children, by depicting them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values. There was a scene in the movie where Rodriguez hit a line drive directly at the pitcher’s mound, and I ducked and held up my mitt, only to realize I didn’t have one, and it was then that I realized how completely this movie had seduced me with its memories of what really matters when you’re 12 years old.
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