| Your father's summer vacation may have involved afternoons playing sandlot baseball or dropping a fishing line into a creek. |
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| Others wanted more attention paid to the minor leagues, school ball, Little League, and the sandlot. |
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| Desiring to meet new friends, Scotty takes up with a group of boys whose sole purpose in life is to play baseball out in the local sandlot. |
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| I was playing sandlot ball in Pasadena when a White Sox scout, spotted me, and, signed me to my first pro contract. |
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| He was known to come home from work at his liquor store, stop off at a nearby field and pitch to both sides of a sandlot game. |
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| He grew up playing soccer and sandlot baseball after spending mornings baking bread in his grandfather's bakery. |
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| Opinions around the league do vary, but there are teams that are enamored with his sandlot football, feel-no-pressure demeanor. |
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| He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, but grew up in New York City, where he played sandlot baseball. |
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| These thoughts are not reserved solely for the sandlot candidates but the minor league ones as well. |
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| The organizers of sandlot ball games are not the only ones with an interest in efficient partitioning. |
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| Within a year or so, he went from sandlot dreamer to bench warmer to league most valuable player. |
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| Young Troy hits a homer to win the sandlot game and says his heart belongs to the Dodgers and Ebbets Field. |
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| In 1962 he went with his mother to New York City, where he played sandlot ball, batting left-handed while throwing right-handed. |
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| He pitched for Lafayette High School and for sandlot teams, and quickly drew notice as a professional prospect. |
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| Today, you'll find them with controller in hand, glued to the TV, stealing bases and smacking home runs on the hand-held video version of the old sandlot standby. |
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| During the sandlot days of the Depression he kept us supplied with scuffed baseballs, huge scarred bats, and other equipment from the Tigers' surplus. |
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| As the son of a semipro athlete who played sandlot baseball and football into his early 40's, he came by that blocky, unbreakable body by way of genetic inheritance. |
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| What he does remember is a sandlot baseball game perhaps forty years in the past, particularly the mesmerizing colloquial speech of Coyle's cousin. |
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| Last Sunday, after cutting cane at a near-by sugar mill, Dr. Castro pitched in a sandlot game. |
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| In spite of his physical torment, he had grown into a strapping youth, so agile on his prosthetic leg that he was able to compete vigorously in sandlot sports. |
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| Gaming cafés, known as PC bangs, had become the default after-school hangout for teen-agers in Seoul, and StarCraft was the new pickup hoops or sandlot ball. |
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| As a youth, Robinson played sandlot and American Legion Junior League baseball in Oakland, Calif., and at McClymonds High School, where he also played football and basketball. |
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| There is a large sandlot especially landscaped for storage of raw cotton. |
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