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Animation

  • Baby Shark's Big Show!: The episode "Slobber Slug" takes a lot from the film in terms of plot, featuring a baseball-esque game hampered by a large dog-like creature.

Live-Action TV

  • Broad City: In "Game Over," the man Abbi revives from the pool is named Squints, a reference to how Squints fakes drowning to kiss Wendy.
  • The George Lopez Show: "The Unnatural" takes plot points from the film, as Mike uses George's autographed baseball for practice, only for Mr. Needles to chew it up. Rather than a pep talk from Babe Ruth, George is given a talking-to from his bobbleheads that feel he's punishing his son too harshly.
  • Reservation Dogs: White Steve earns the respect of everyone in the storm shelter by performing a self-deprecating rap. He acknowledges his resemblance to Ham (overweight and red-headed) in one bar, earning him good-natured laughs.
    White Steve: Standin' next to y'all got me feeling so tall/Makes me wanna say, "Yo, you're killin' me, Smalls!"
  • Stranger Things: Billy being a sexy lifeguard that the housewives can't stop ogling is a gender-flipped reference, with Billy's co-lifeguard Heather dressing exactly like Wendy does in the film.
  • The X-Files: In "Home," Scully refers the kids who found the buried infant as the Sandlot Gang.

Music

  • In "Corn Maze" by Aesop Rock:
    Criminy, ya killin' me, Smalls, the fist balls up!
    I put my hood down! I got some walls up!

Webcomic

  • Mulberry: The Disney Vault is shown to hold a rather wide array of characters, memorabilia, and media, satirizing Disney Owns This Trope.
    Jack: Is the "Beast" from The Sandlot behind there or something?
    Mulberry: Actually, as of 2018... YES! And so is Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, The Muppets, every Marvel superhero (with some exceptions depending on who owns a pre-existing movie contract)...and they'll even own The Simpsons soon! The vault is swallowing EVERYONE! And once you're in, there's NO MEANS OF ESCAPE!

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