'You either were one of those kids, knew one of those kids or wanted to be one of those kids,' David Mickey Evans said of The Sandlot cast.
), memorable and re-watchable, something close to a children’s movie version of “Dazed and Confused,” another cult film from the same year that also was devoted to time and place and nostalgia.
The story of “The Sandlot” began in the early 1990s, when Evans, then a young writer and director, was fired as the director of “Radio Flyer,” a children’s film for which he’d written the script. Evans was replaced by Richard Donner, the legendary director, who offered a piece of advice: “Everybody in Hollywood gets a second chance, and nobody gets a third.”
To Evans, the story of the baseball was always secondary. When the studio and other crew members worried about casting kids who could master the baseball scenes, he pushed back. He just needed kids who could catch, hit and throw. To make sure the kids could catch and throw, Evans enlisted the help of Zacapa, who had grown up playing competitive baseball in the Bay Area. Zacapa would go on to have a role in the David Fincher film “Seven,” as well as a cameo on “Seinfield,” but he was first hired to be the film’s “baseball technical advisor.” Unofficially, he was the head coach.
From left: Grant Gelt, Victor DiMattia, Marty York and Chauncey Leopardi during “The Sandlot” 20th anniversary tour wrap-up at Dodger Stadium in 2013.
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