sandlot
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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an area of vacant ground used by children for playing baseball and other games
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(modifier) denoting a game or sport played on a sandlot
sandlot baseball
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“So I started playing polo, but sandlot kind of polo, low level. But I learned. Anyway, I started getting better and better and better,” he said.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
Despite his Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, Herbert never forgot the sandlot tales of his youth at Northwestern.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
That’s how I would hear bits and pieces about the Washington Black Sox, a sandlot baseball team consisting primarily of Black baseball players that would become one of the best on the East Coast.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2022
While living at home in St. Louis during the pandemic, Zanaboni said, he felt a calling to visit the field where McMahon organized countless sandlot games.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022
At the end of our two-block alley was a small sandlot playground with swings and slides well-shined down the middle with use.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
And in between talks about that universe, there would be mentions of this baseball team, the one that ruled the sandlots in the DMV.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2022
Robinson rose from the sandlots of Oakland to become one of baseball’s most feared sluggers — his 586 home runs rank 10th on baseball’s all-time list.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2019
His father John had played minor league baseball, and the young Kinsella fell for the game playing with friends on sandlots in Edmonton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
His house was not far from the grocery store that Mario Cuomo’s parents owned, and Ward, who played baseball as a boy, remembers the future governor from games in the neighborhood sandlots.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
The despised Salvation Army trying to feed a thousand homeless and hungry men on the sandlots of San Francisco proves that already the curse has travelled across the continent.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
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