Factual error: In Mr. Mertle's house, an Atlanta Braves pennant is visible on the wall. It is established that the film takes place in 1962, but the Braves didn't move to Atlanta until 1966.

Factual error: In his voiceover narration, Smalls says that Babe Ruth's "called shot" was made at Yankee Stadium in the bottom of the ninth inning in game 3 of the 1932 World Series. That play actually occurred in the top of the fifth inning at Wrigley Field. It can't be a simple character mistake; the event is too famous for him not to have heard or read about it growing up, especially since his stepfather is a Yankees fan.

Revealing: In the scene where the boys' rival team challenges them, all the boys throw their gloves down, except Yeah-Yeah. When they all go to pick them back up, Yeah-Yeah has to pretend to pick it up.

Continuity: When Smalls tries to throw the ball for the first time, everyone laughs at him and falls down. When it shows the guys from Smalls' view, it shows Yeah-Yeah falling down. Then when Smalls is running away, it shows Yeah-Yeah falling again.

Continuity: When the treehouse is about to explode, we see Beltram say he's getting out of there and go down the ladder. Then after some scenes we see him running out of the tree house when he was supposedly already down on the ground.

Continuity: When the fence is about to fall on the dog, it changes camera angles. In each camera angle the fence falls in different directions. Plus when it starts falling, the dog turns around facing the fence, but when it falls on him, he is facing the other way.

Revealing: When the kids are at the pool and Squints has just jumped in the deep end, the other kids go crazy and then you can see water on the camera.

Continuity: Towards the end of the movie when Benny is playing ball with his teammates, he hits the ball out to the field. Timmy uses his left hand to catch the ball, but in the next scene you see Timmy using his right hand to catch.

Plot hole: How can Benny fit a brand new hat and a baseball glove in his back pocket? This is shown in one of the first scenes in the movie, when Benny gives smalls a glove and a hat.

Continuity: At the end when Benny gets the ball and runs from the beast he hops the fence. The ball is in his right hand as he jumps. When the gang helps him up, he doesn't have the baseball in his right hand. As he's running through town the ball is back in his right hand.

Continuity: When Benny steals home at the end of the movie. When the team celebrates you can clearly see Benny break away from his team mates and point up to the press box. But a few scenes later they show Benny doing it again in a close up.

Plot hole: As Bill is leaving for his business trip, Scott asks him where he's going. It seems that if the husband/father was about to travel a couple thousand miles away and be gone for a week, the kid would have found out or been informed of where he was going at some point before the dad was about to leave for the airport. Especially when the mom is so eager for them to warm up to each other.