Example Sentences

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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

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

“I played in the sandlots as a kid, in high school regionals. In college, baseball was my social life and my passion. I just loved it and I still love it.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2017

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