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One of my favorite movies of all time is the Sandlot. This has been one of my favorites ever since I was a little girl. Which might be weird for most young girls to like a movie about baseball, but I loved watching it with my family. It was a movie that we all enjoyed. The movie starts when Scottie smalls moves to a new neighborhood towards the end of the school year. He wanted to make some new friends before summer started. One day after school, Scottie follows a group of kids to the sandlot and we watched them play baseball. Scottie did not know how to play baseball, but the group he followed friended Scottie and taught him how to play baseball. The boys caught themselves in a bit of a pickle, when Scottie barrows his step dad’s baseball,

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