Smalls reveals what happens to all his friends in the future at the end of The Sandlot, but one character’s ambiguous fate reframes The Sandlot’s ending as bittersweet. The Sandlot has gained a cult reputation as one of the best coming-of-age baseball movies since its 1993 release. Following new kid Scotty Smalls, The Sandlot tells the story of Smalls’ first summer in his new town, where he befriends a rag-tag group of baseball-obsessed kids despite not knowing how to play the game himself. The kids’ summer takes a turn when Smalls’ Babe Ruth-autographed baseball goes over the fence, and they band together to rescue the ball from “The Beast.”

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