"It's a like a sandlot game with an umpire and rules," she said.

Many a Little League coach has altered the course of a sandlot game by offering Popsicles all around.

Dayett said the game reminded him of the sandlot games he played as a youngster.

"Let's play a little sandlot game in the Rose Garden," Pharms said.

When you grow up in small community like that, in all the sandlot games, the Super Bowl is something you dream about.

These games are about the continuation of a good old-fashioned knockdown drag-out sandlot game with deep roots.

But even in the lowliest sandlot games, the level of play is impressive.

And these plans will do wonders for the sandlot game.

They were said to have once strung their rifles to trees and watched a sandlot game of cricket.

The Cooperstown centennial stamp, depicting a sandlot game, was, at the time, one of the largest issues ever.