Goofs

The first time we see Wendy walking in her green dress, her hair is straight. After a brief cutaway, her hair is curly and in a different position. (at around 31 mins) Her hair on either side falls behind her back where it looks straight because we can't see any of its ends. As she gets closer (at 33:40, 33:42, and 33:49) the hair on her left side falls in front of her shoulder and its wavy ends can be seen.

At the end of the movie when adult Smalls is calling the game and Benny is stealing home, in the monitor behind Smalls you can clearly see Benny is sliding into home, but in the next scene he is still running towards the plate.

Smalls' black eye gets considerably worse in the time between Benny asking him to play ball and the game a little time later. At the sandlot, it's darker than before.

The cake that flies into the air when the beast is chasing Benny is obviously a different cake from the one that falls onto the chefs (at around 1h 24 mins).

A while into the chase scene at the end of the movie, the dog chases Benny through the founders' celebration. A large cake, about four or five tiers high, is being carried by a couple of bakers. They lose their balance and set the cake down, but eventually it gets sent into the air. While going up, it stays whole, but the shot changes when it's coming down, and it has now broken apart into many small pieces before it hits the 2 bakers/deliverymen.

In the movies opening scene, adult Scott narrates that Babe Ruth's called shot happened in the bottom 9th inning in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series with the tying run on base. This would imply that the Yankees were down by 2 runs at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. However the game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, and it was in the top of the 5th in a 4-4 tie where Ruth hit his called shot.

It is impossible to hit the hide off of a baseball (as proven by the Mythbusters).

The end credits give thanks for the use of clips for a movie called "The Wolfman" (this is the movie being watched in the auditorium during the beast chase scene). This film, however, is actually called "The Wolf Man" (with "Wolf Man" as two separate words).

Multiple police officers are seen pointing Thompson machine guns at the beast, ready to fire, as the dog is being locked up. Tommy guns fire from the open bolt position with the charging handles back, but all the guns in the scene have the charging handles forward, meaning none of the officers could have fired their Tommy guns if the Beast had attacked them.

When the treehouse is about to explode, we see Bertram say he's getting out of there and go down the ladder. Then after some scenes we see him running out of the tree house when he was supposedly already down on the ground.

Mastiffs (the breed of the Beast) are quite docile, the opposite of the depiction in the movie. This was done on purpose to show how young children always imagine things to be scarier than they are.

Ray Charles' rendition of "America the Beautiful" plays during the 4th of July scene. The film takes place in 1962 and the song was first published in 1910, but Charles' version wasn't recorded until 1976 in time for America's bicentennial. Like all the other songs played in the film, however, it is non-diegetic.

Even though Benny and the gang were banned from the pool, Benny is seen running through the pool area during his chase with The Beast. This is not a goof. As has been seen throughout the entire chase, Benny is hopping fences and getting into areas in non-traditional ways, so it is not impossible to think Benny hopped the fences around the pool in order to continue running away.

At several points in the movie lights are seen on at Mr. Mertle's house. However, Mr. Mertle is blind and lives alone, so having lights on would be useless to him. However, contrary to popular belief, most people who are legally blind still retain a small amount of residual vision, and they do tend to rely upon it in their everyday lives. Thus, Mr. Mertle having the lights on in his house to assist with what little vision he would have left is not an error.

When the baseball team shows up to challenge the kids at the sandlot, Squints goes to throw his glove down and winds up going straight back into Tommy "Repeat" Timmons' chest. If look carefully you can see Benny look back to see what happened.

When the boys are trying to get the ball back from the dog, Squints looks through the slot/periscope and you can see an obvious green screen behind him.

The prop California license plate VTZ 245 appears on both the rear of a 1959 Chevrolet and the front of an Edsel.

During the Fourth of July scene, cutaway shots of fireworks appear stretched horizontally, indicating non-anamorphic stock footage was spliced into the film.

The flashback to the past during Squints's "Legend of the Beast" story contradicts what is later seen in the present when the boys meet Mr. Mertle for the first time. He's black while in the flashback, he's white, and he's blind, while he clearly isn't in Squint's story. Perhaps most contradictory of all is the fact that Herb Muller, who plays Mertle as a 'young man' is actually two to three years older than James Earl Jones. However, what is shown of him in the flashback is most likely Squints visualizing the story for himself as he tells it. Plus, his notion that it was dangerous to ask Mr. Mertle to get the ball turned out to be completely false, which pops a lot of holes in his credibility.

As Bill is leaving the house to go on his business trip he tells Smalls they will give catch another try when he gets back. However, at this point in the film, it is already past July 4th and Smalls has been playing baseball every single day for several weeks. Bill should know Scott is adept at baseball enough to know he doesn't need to teach him how to catch.

Mr. Mertle has both Milwaukee Braves and Atlanta Braves memorabilia in his house. In 1962, the Braves were still playing in Milwaukee and had not yet made the move to Atlanta. This move wouldn't occur until three years later, in 1965.

Benny has an early 1970's San Diego Padres pennant in his room. The Padres didn't enter the league until 1969.

In Bill's rec room, he has a pennant of the Athletics, of which only the bottom is shown. The typeface matches that which was used by the Oakland Athletics in the late 1980's, and the colors used are green and gold. The Kansas City Athletics did not begin using green and gold as their colors until 1963, after the 1962 time depicted in the film.

In some shots behind Benny, his Dodgers hat has the MLB logo on the back. MLB caps didn't put the logo on the backs of caps until the 1992 season.

In Mr. Mertle's junkyard there are modern day (early 90's) Coors and Coors Light beer cans. Coors Light wasn't produced until 1979.

The sound of a ball hitting a metal bat is sometimes used even though the kids are using wooden bats.

When the boys are trying to retrieve the Babe Ruth baseball with the vacuum, the string that pulls the ball into the face mask is visible (at around 1h 07 mins).

The film is set in southern California, but filmed in northern Utah (in the suburban area around Salt Lake City.) There are several goofs throughout the movie that point this out, the most glaring of which being a Romney sign (see Trivia), and the appearance of Vincent Drug, which is a family-owned business in Midvale, Utah (a Salt Lake City suburb.)

Scotty would not have had to use the Babe Ruth baseball to play with when the team runs out of balls; he also had the ball he and Bill had played catch with when he got a black eye.

Being as big a baseball fan and player that he is, it seems unlikely that Benny would spell Babe Ruth's last name wrong (as "Ruthe") when forging his signature on the ball.

When Ham hits his home run he yells "Low and outside, just like I like it!" The pitch was not low and outside (at around 17 mins), but high and outside.

When Benny and the others are looking at the destroyed baseball, when Benny and Kenny are talking their mouths are out of sync with what they are saying.

When Squints is pulled from the water by Wendy, he is still clutching his glasses. This makes sense because he is only pretending to be unconscious; were he actually unconscious, his grip on his glasses would have slackened. Wendy is a trained lifeguard, and there is no way she could not have taken this into account before giving him mouth-to-mouth.