<P> The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming - of - age baseball film co-written, directed and narrated by David Mickey Evans, which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962 . It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones . The filming locations were in Glendale, Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah . </P> <P> It grossed $33 million worldwide and has become a cult film . </P> <P> In the San Fernando Valley during the summer of 1962, Scotty Smalls is the new boy in the neighborhood, seeking desperately to fit in . He would be welcomed on the local sandlot baseball team that practices every day, which only has eight players . Smalls however, cannot play baseball; on his first visit to the sandlot he finds himself in the outfield with a fly ball descending toward him which bounces off his glove, causing the other boys, except Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez, the team's leader, to burst out laughing . Smalls, humiliated, leaves the baseball field . </P> <P> Smalls asks his stepfather to teach him to play, and while his stepdad agrees, Scott cannot successfully catch or throw the ball . Benny soon teaches him what he needs to know, and with Benny's support, he gets a place on the team . </P>

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