The movie shows how children get sensational about something that is not truth. For instance “the beast”, and “Babe Ruth”. This kind of sensationalism about folklore or legend quite similar to one Korean urban legend called “red masked woman”. This story was originally from Japan, but somehow it got wide spread when I was in elementary school. Even I strongly believed the story as real and I was so afraid of it. The folklore or legend in the movie they are relate to the urban legend “red masked woman”.
In the movie, young Smalls moves to new town with his family. One day he was watching other kids playing baseball. Smalls was barely join the team. He met Benny who is trying to help him playing baseball properly. The kids are often playing baseball