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• The older and younger Benny are played by real-life brothers, Pablo Vitar and Mike Vitar.
  
  
• When the boys are in the pool watching Wendy Peffercorn, the dialog: "She don't know what she's doing" and the answer "Yes she does, she knows exactly what she's doing" is the same as in a similar scene in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
  
  
• When the narrator is describing how everyone grew up towards the end, he says that Bertram (Grant Gelt) "got really into the sixties, and no one ever heard from him again". In real life, Gelt would go on to land a part in _"'60s, The" (1999)_ .
  
  
• In order to establish the close bond between Smalls and Benny, the director had Tom Guiry and Mike Vitar meet and rehearse together weeks before the rest of the kids showed up to film. It worked so well that the other kids genuinely believed the two actors had been friends for a long time.
  
  
• The dog "Hercules" was an English Mastiff
  
  
• In the film Dennis Leary's character adores both the Babe Ruth and 1927 Yankees signed baseballs but in real life Leary is a fan of the Boston Red Sox and hates the Yankees.
  
  
• The name of other park the sandlot kids play the little league team at was the L.C. Romney Baseball Park.
  
  
• In Benny's dream, Babe Ruth takes a baseball card depicting Hank Aaron.
  
  
• In Benny's dream, The Babe says "I don't know why, but can I have this?" when referring to Henry (Hank) Aaron's baseball card. Hank Aaron would go on to break Babe Ruth's all-time home run record.
  
  
• Five of the members of the Sandlot baseball team - Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Quintin Adams, and Grant Gelt - all had roles in different episodes of Boy Meets World. Art LaFluer, "The Great Bambino," was also later featured in Boy Meets World.
  
  
• Mr Mertle (James Earl Jones) shows the boys a photo of himself with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Of course it is a retouched photo that had Jones' head put on the body of Hall Of Fame slugger Jimmie Foxx who was the real player pictured with Ruth and Gehrig. The real photo can be seen in many baseball books.
  
  
• Early in the film the narration describes how Babe Ruth came up to bat in the bottom of the 9th inning with the tying run on base and supposedly pointed to centerfield and called his famous homerun in the 1932 world series. Facts are that the Ruth homerun was hit in the 5th inning of a game that was already tied. The game was also played at Wrigley Field in Chicago making it a Cubs home game so Ruth could not have batted in the bottom of any inning.
  
  
• In the beginning of the movie, the Sandlot kids refer to someone that has moved away, which is why Benny wants to bring in Smalls, to fill that spot. At the end of the movie, while the adult Smalls is narrating about what happened after that first summer, he explains that whenever someone moved away, they were never replaced.
  
  
• Squints and Timmy both are left-handed throwers, but they both bat right-handed. While it's not unusual for a right-handed thrower to bat left-handed, it is extremely rare for a left-handed thrower to bat right-handed.
  
  

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