'The Sandlot' hits 25: Director David Mickey Evans talks about the cult film's effect

Amazingly, it’s been 25 years since the deeply nostalgic, 1962-set coming-of-age comedy “The Sandlot,” with its memorable band of baseball-centric tween boys and a fearsome English mastiff, first hit theater screens.

Although the movie, directed by David Mickey Evans (from a script by Evans and...