Bill loves the Murderer's Row ball, but still grounds Smalls for a week for taking and ruining his Babe Ruth autographed ball. Their relationship improves and Smalls begins to call him "Dad". The boys continue to play on the sandlot the rest of that summer, and several subsequent summers with the Beast – whose real name is Hercules – as their mascot. As the years pass, the boys eventually go their separate ways: Yeah-Yeah enlists in the army and later becomes one of the pioneering developers of bungee jumping; Bertram disappears into the counterculture movement; Timmy and Tommy become an architect and a contractor and become wealthy upon inventing mini-malls; Squints marries Wendy, has nine kids with her, and the two run the local drug store; Ham becomes a professional wrestler: "The Great Hambino"; DeNunez plays triple-A baseball, but later owns a business and coaches his sons' Little League team: The Heaters; and Benny earns the nickname "the Jet" after word spreads around about his encounter with the Beast.

As an adult, Smalls becomes a sports commentator and remains friends with Benny, now a player for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Performing the play-by-play for a Dodgers game, Smalls cheers Benny on as he steals home to win the game against the San Francisco Giants, and they give each other the same thumbs-up sign they have shared since childhood. In Smalls' broadcast booth, he owns and keeps on display the chewed-up Babe Ruth autographed ball, the Murderer's Row ball, the forged Babe Ruth ball, some pictures of Babe Ruth, and a large picture of the Sandlot kids from 1962.