Research Paper On The Sandlot

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The sandlot Have you ever heard of the sandlot ? This movie is a good movie. Because of the director David Evans. There was a new boy that moved into the town. His name was Scotty Smalls but they called him smalls.When they got on the baseball field Smalls was trying to prove his stuff but he had never learned how to play catch. So he failed everyone of them started to laugh. Except for one person Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez or Benny for short and that is how it all got started. Smalls only got better from there. First of all the movie is good because it is funny. It has all of these little one liners like “you're killin me smalls” and “you play ball like a girl”. What also makes the movie funny

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