Revisiting movies or television shows from your childhood is a dangerous thing.

There’s great potential for nostalgia and reconnecting with something you enjoyed in the past, but equally great danger that you’ll hate it and wonder what the heck little you was thinking.

This morning I put aside any fears of ruining good memories and delved back into the 1993 film “Rookie of the Year,” about a 12-year-old kid who hurts his arm slipping on a baseball and heals in such a freakish way that his 103 mph fastball earns him a spot on the Chicago Cubs.

I saw this movie in the theater for my 10th birthday, and the main character, Henry, became my hero both because he played professional baseball as a child and also because he got to star in a Pepsi commercial. That seemed like a pretty ideal life to me.

It may be because I was on a super baseball high after last night’s amazing World Series game, but it’s possible I enjoyed this movie even more today than I did as a kid. It’s funny and heartwarming, and only features sliiightly implausible baseball scenes that are easy to overlook. Plus it has one of the great aspects of watching movies of this era — the ability to pick out random actors nobody heard of then, but have since gone on to more famous roles. In this case, the winner was the first basemen for the Cubs, actor Neil Flynn, who is much better known as the janitor on the TV show “Scrubs.”

Even the star of the movie, Thomas Ian Nichols, managed to avoid the fate of many child actors. Instead of being in one big film, doing a couple of TV show cameos and disappearing from the acting world, he has consistently worked since this movie came out, most notably as one of the stars of the “American Pie” series.

And of course I can’t leave out director Daniel Stern, who also acted in the movie. Most people would know him best as one of the robbers in the classic “Home Alone.”

I was also struck by how many lines I remembered, many that my friends and I quoted over the years (and perhaps still today): “Hey Rosinbagger!” “Did he just say, ‘funky butt-lovin?'” “Piiitcher’s got a biiig butt.” “Float it!”

Here’s to hoping the next one is such a positive experience.