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• Continuity: When the adult Benny steals home to win a game for the Dodgers, watch the monitor behind Scott Smalls in the broadcast booth. While Smalls is describing what is happening, the monitor shows Benny sliding safely across home plate
  
  
• Continuity: The lifeguard's sunglasses and whistle reappear on her chair after she threw them down.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kenny throws the "heater" to Ham Porter, Ham obviously pops it back and to the right. But in the next shot, it flies over the left-field fence for a home run.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When the boys are trying to retrieve the Babe Ruth baseball with the vacuum, the string that pulls the ball into the face mask is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: When Benny is writing the fake signature of Babe Ruth on the new baseball, one of the kids mocks Benny's autograph attempt and says "Baby Ruthey?" before he had completed his misspelling ("Ruthe").
  
  
• Continuity: The first time we see Wendy walking in her green dress, her hair is straight. After a brief cutaway, her hair is curly and in a different position.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The sound of a ball hitting a metal bat is sometimes used even though the kids are using wooden bats.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time Scotty plays ball with his new friends, he has a black eye. The next day he is playing ball again, his eye is normal.
  
  
• Continuity: While Squints is in the water, his glasses are in his right hand and when Wendy pulls him out his glasses are in his left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: The cakes that flies into the air when the beast is chasing Benny is obviously a different cake than the one that falls onto the chefs.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the movies opening scene, adult Scott narrates that Babe Ruth's called shot happened in the bottom 9th inning in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series with the tying run on base. This would imply that the Yankees were down by 2 runs at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. However the game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, and it was in the top of the 5th in a 4-4 tie where Ruth hit his called shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Right after the first Wendy Peffercorn scene, when Squints and Yea-Yea are on the sandlot running towards the everyone else in the dugout, when they run across the field it's morning, but when they get to the dugout it's the afternoon.
  
  
• Continuity: When the adult Smalls is telling the story of Babe Ruth in the beginning of the movie, there is a shot of the field from the box when it is almost completely covered in shadow with the sun from behind the box. The next shot of the pictures on the wall however, there are shadows coming from the frames which can only happen when the sun is facing the box.
  
  
• Continuity: When the kids are playing ball in the school yard, Benny hits a long ball with his shadow on the left side. When he starts running, the shadows switch to the right side.
  
  
• Continuity: When Smalls is retrieving Bennie's ball from under the bush and the kids are yelling at him to hurry, Yeah-Yeah throws his glove to the ground. In the next shot when Smalls can't throw it back however, he has is glove back on.
  
  
• Continuity: When the kids are kicked out of the pool, they all gather their clothes and run except for Tommy who just runs without picking up clothes. In the next shot, he is running with an armful of clothes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Benny slides for the baseball, he grabs it with his right hand. When he gets back up and runs though, the ball switches to his left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: After being kicked out of the pool and Squints is staring at Wendy, his towel changes positions between each shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Smalls hits the Babe Ruth ball over the fence, the ball flying toward the camera is an obvious special effect and not a real baseball (identifiable by the fact that the ball isn't spinning at all.)
  
  
• Anachronisms: The flashback scene of the legend of the beast was supposed to take place twenty years earlier, which would be in 1942, yet the junkyard is loaded with more recent junk cars, including a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino, a 1965 Imperial, and a 1958 Edsel. In addition, the Police cars are 1952-54 Fords and the trailer the beast was supposed to be living in was a 1960's Aristocrat Lo-Liner.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Benny and Smalls are in the blind man's house, an Atlanta Braves Pennant is seen above the bookshelf. The Braves didn't move to Atlanta until 1966. The movie is based in 1962.
  
  
• Factual errors: The cannonball Porter does at the pool doesn't create a splash big enough to soak the poolside girls, yet it somehow does.
  
  
• Continuity: When the boys are jumping out of the tree house before the vacuums blow up, Benny is seen jumping over Ham who is holding onto the ladder, then Ham lets go and falls off. In the next shot, however, Benny and Ham hit the ground at the same time even though Benny jumped off way before.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The film takes place in 1962, but the L.A. Dodger hat that Benny Rodriguez wears is clearly a modern era hat, probably from the early 90's, when the movie was filmed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Benny is running from the Beast into the gymnasium/theater, he leaves the right door open. However, during the next shot where the Beast breaks through the left door's window, the right door is closed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Smalls plays with the Sandlot crew the first time, it shows him with two different hats. The one with the trout and a blue hat w/ a yellow "C".
  
  
• Factual errors: The PF Flyers that Benny puts on are hightops, but a picture on the box they came in show that they should be lowtops.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the scenes from 1962, Benny wears a Los Angeles jersey with his last name "RODRIGUEZ" on the back. At the time, few if any major league teams wore jerseys with names on the back and to purchase a knock off with one's own name would have been difficult if it even occurred to some one to do so.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Mr. Mertle, who is African-American, said he played for the Yankees alongside Babe Ruth. However, Ruth retired in 1935, 12 years before the first African-American played in the major leagues. (Jackie Robinson in 1947.)
  
  
• Factual errors: It is impossible to hit the hide off of a baseball (as proven by the Mythbusters).
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Henry Aaron card that Benny owns is enclosed in a Lucite baseball card holder. In 1962 Lucite baseball holders had not yet been invented.
  
  

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