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
Despite his Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, Herbert never forgot the sandlot tales of his youth at Northwestern.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
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
Brady and Jordan share another legacy that is even more inspirational, particularly for anonymous gym rats and sandlot players everywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Mr. Reese would always lend us a couple of old bats if we wanted to play, but balls were something else, because we kept knocking them out of the sandlot.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
The most impactful player in baseball history grew up here, Jackie Robinson learning his craft on the sandlots of Pasadena just up the road from Chavez Ravine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
His father, John, had played minor league baseball, and the young Kinsella fell for the game playing with friends on sandlots in Edmonton.
From Seattle 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
Hillerich & Bradsby Co. has made the iconic bats for more than 130 years, supplying the bats with the recognizable oval logo for generations of baseball players - from the sandlots to the big leagues.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 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 William Cowper Brann
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