re: Who actually likes “travel ball”

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my oldest...he only plays little league...no way and he knows it. football is his sport the other 2 yea positive. just have to fight against them doign too much and getting burned out. even at 10 the kids on my middle kids team are being asked which school by the hs coaches.

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We are fortunate here to have really good rec baseball for young ages. My oldest boy is 7 and he has grown up on fields, (We have pictures of him with his pacifier in standing with me in national anthem line) but he’s not ate up with it. He just likes to play when it’s baseball season. Our local league has an insane amount of kids playing different sports. Just in his 7u league there are 18 teams all with about 11-12 kids on each team. That’s just the 7 year olds in our town of 40k people. Not counting the dozen or so club organizations around that start around 7-8u. His team plays 18 games and practice twice a week and it’s been the perfect amount for that age. The numbers dwindle a little as you go up each age due to club teams, kids choosing other sports etc, but they still go all the way up to a 14u all star team that plays the rec all star teams of the neighboring suburb cities and it’s pretty good baseball (not great) but those kids can still make a high school team. (More than likely as program kids but there are many exceptions as I described earlier).

I hate that it’s so mission critical for kids in that area at such a young age but like you’ve said 100 times in this thread, it is what it is