Outside Reading #1 - Sandlot

   My classmate, Rebekah Cook's, thesis about the movie The Sandlot was very unique look at this movie that I had never noticed.  She investigated how Benny "The Jet" represents Jesus in his unconditional love of Smalls.  She also compares Mr. Mertle to God in that he gives Smalls an incredibly valuable baseball symbolizing how God gives us life though we don not deserve it.  This thesis is a very interesting look at a movie I would never look at for Biblical symbolism and would take interest in researching more into this.