Did you ever play sandlot baseball with neighborhood kids? That is how I spent my summers.
Of course, I did. Though, we mostly played on a cul-de-sac and with tennis balls or occasionally at Hager Park with real balls when we could get enough people. Sometimes we played wiffle ball in a backyard.
The Sandlot is not a bad movie, It's a great family movie. I don't think it's on par with Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out, The Rookie, Pride of the Yankees, A League of Their Own, The Natural, Bad News Bears, Bang the Drum Slowly, or several others when it comes to baseball movies. It flogs the hell out of John Goodman as the Babe.