Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong." "Heroes get remembered," says the Babe, "but legends never die. That night, Benny has a dream in which the spirit of Babe Ruth advises Benny to retrieve the ball himself. When the other boys learn of the autograph, they educate Smalls about Babe Ruth and make several attempts to get the ball out of the yard, using makeshift retrieval devices, but each is destroyed by the Beast. Being ignorant of baseball history, Smalls does not immediately realize the ball's value, and hits his first home run, sending it into the Beast's yard. With Bill away on business in Chicago, Smalls borrows a baseball from his trophy room, which happens to be autographed by legendary player Babe Ruth. One day, Benny hits the team's only baseball so hard that he knocks the cover off. To celebrate, they visit a fair, where they try chewing tobacco obtained by Bertram Grover Weeks, then ride the Trabant the combination causes them to fall ill and vomit all over themselves and others. On Independence Day, the team plays a night game by the light of the fireworks, and Smalls observes that although to the rest of them baseball is just a game, "to Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez, baseball was life." Later, they are challenged to play against a local Little League team, whom they handily defeat. The sandlot team is banned from the pool, but Squints' reputation is boosted. Michael "Squints" Palledorous has a crush on lifeguard Wendy Peffercorn, and fakes drowning in order to get her to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
One particularly hot day, the boys visit the community pool. Many baseballs hit into the yard over the years have all been claimed by the Beast, which is kept chained up by its owner, Mr. When catcher Hamilton "Ham" Porter hits a home run into an adjacent backyard, Smalls attempts to retrieve the ball but is stopped by the other boys, who tell him of "the Beast", a large and highly territorial English Mastiff which the boys' imaginations have transformed into a kid-eating "giant gorilla-dog thing". Nevertheless, he is invited to join the team by their leader and best player, Benny Rodriguez, who teaches him the basic skills needed to play the game. An attempt to learn to play catch with his stepfather, Bill, results in a black eye.
He tries to join a group of boys who play baseball daily in a local sandlot, but is embarrassed by his inability to catch or throw the ball. In the summer of 1962, brainy, shy fifth-grader Scott Smalls moves to a Los Angeles suburb, where his mother encourages him to make friends in the neighborhood.
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