re: Does Tara High still have a baseball team?

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Inner city kids tend to stay away from baseball these days(Scotlandville Magnet HS has a Solid program)....

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I agree, but why? (here comes the can of worms being opened)

Serious question for anyone who can answer, are there local little leagues anymore where any kid from the neighborhood can just sign up an play on a baseball team?

I don't care where people stand on the travel ball argument, but it just seems like youth baseball has completely changed over the last 10-15 years. Now it almost seems like a posh sport where in order to play, a kid needs a family who is willing to spend a not unsubtantial sum of money to do so. Just 20 years ago just about every young boy in my town played little league, regardless of their ability or their family's income. Now that doesn't seem to be the case.

Correlate that to black high schools and schools like Tara and Broadmoor where many of the white kids don't come from families with means, and IMO, I think you see part of the reason for the decline in baseball participation at these schools.