sandlot
Americannoun
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sandlots
plural
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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Origin of sandlot
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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
“It’s in our blood,” said laborer Kesavan Pakkirisamy as he coached his team at one sandlot, the skyline of Doha visible in the distance.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 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
He’s like the hero in a sandlot movie, but he’s doing it for real.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
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
So he played basketball during the winter and baseball on sandlots and with American Legion teams during the summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
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
Fauci said playing baseball in Brooklyn’s sandlots, which produced future major league stars like Joe Pepitone and Sandy Koufax, was better than high school baseball.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2020
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
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 William Cowper Brann
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