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• n  a vacant lot used by city boys to play games

• They were the stuff of so many children's sandlot dreams.
• Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman .
• Remember how in sandlot baseball games sometimes nobody on your team could hit the ball, and you'd be behind by, say, 16 runs in the final inning?.

News & Articles

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• ‘Sandlot’ Reunion!
  The Sandlot’s stars are re-uniting to celebrate the movie’s 20th anniversary. Patrick Renna and Chancey Leopardi have been attending pro baseball games as part of the movie’s 20 year celebration. We met up with Ham from Sandlot a while back …
  June 12, 2013 - Nightcap TV
• Sandlot Stars Chauncey Leopardi, Patrick Renna Reunite for Film's 20th Anniversary: Picture
  You're killing me, Smalls! Sandlot costars Chauncey Leopardi (Squints) and Patrick Renna (Ham) reuni[...]
  June 11, 2013 - US Weekly
• ‘The Sandlot’ Stars Reunite For 20th Anniversary, Still Look The Same
  The Sandlot came out 20 years ago, but the actors who played Squints and Ham in the coming-of-age movie look like they haven’t changed a bit. Patrick Renna and Chauncey Leopardi, who played the baby-faced Ham and scheming Squints in the 1993 movie about a group of friends, have been making the rounds this summer [...] ‘The Sandlot’ Stars Reunite For 20th Anniversary, Still Look The Same is a ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Jim Leyland in Montreal Gazette
  He's the kid that couldn't wait to get out on the field to play baseball,Leyland said. "He just loves baseball. He's the first one waiting at the sandlot, ready to say, 'Let's go!'"
• Ned Yost in MLB.com
  He's a gamer,Yost said. "It doesn't matter for him if it's Spring Training or it's the sandlot. He has that passion in his heart to play the game hard and play the game well, and when he doesn't, he gets frustrated with himself."
• Joe Torre in New York Times
  As a teenager growing up, you'd play sandlot ball and get little trophies, even if it was just a hitter on top of a little stand, and it'd be him,Torre said. "On some of them, you could see the outline of the little '42' on his back. He...