Live Tweet Alert: Join #FridayNightFlix for The Sandlot!

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Lisa Marie Bowman

As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly watch parties. On Twitter, I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday and I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday. On Mastodon, I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.

Tonight, at 10 pm et, I will be hosting #FridayNightFlix! The movie? 1993’s The Sandlot!

If you want to join us this Friday, just hop onto twitter, find The Sandlot on Prime, start the movie at 10 pm et, and use the #FridayNightFlix hashtag! I’ll be there happily tweeting. It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.

See you there!

You’re Killing Me, Smalls!: Let’s Play in THE SANDLOT (20th Century-Fox 1993)

Posted on August 13, 2019 by gary loggins

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Baseball movies are as American as apple pie, and everyone has their favorites, from classic era films like THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES and TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME to latter-day fare like THE NATURAL and FIELD OF DREAMS. There’s so much to choose from, comedies, dramas, and everything in-between. One of my all-time favorites is 1993’s coming of age classic, THE SANDLOT.

Like most baseball movies, THE SANDLOT is about more than just The Great American Pastime. Director David Mickey Evans’ script (co-written with Robert Gunter) takes us back to 1962, as young Scotty Smalls has moved to a brand new neighborhood in a brand new city. His dad died, and his mom (Karen Allen of NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE fame) has remarried preoccupied Bill (young comedian Denis Leary…. hmmm, I wonder what ever happened to him??), who tries to teach the nerdy kid how to play…

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Scenes I Love: The Sandlot – “The Night Game”

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Leonard Wilson

When I think of the 4th of July, one of the biggest memories for me (other than recognizing what it took to declare the country free), are Fireworks in the street. Here in NYC, there was once a time where anyone could get a hold of fireworks, and the views you’d get in the sky were just as bright and beautiful as they are on the Hudson. Add to that a little baseball, and you have an easily memorable scene. Enjoy and may you all have a Safe and Happy Independence Day.