re: Travel Baseball

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The reason travel ball 'works' isn't because of exposure or stupid shite like that, it's because kids spend hr after hr repeating and honing their skills. That's how all good athletes come about. The kids who make it past travel ball and so on are the ones who out worked everyone else (depending on size and age).

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That is about the best answer I have ever heard regarding travel baseball.

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left up to the kid

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That is the problem that I see with this though. Sometimes, things can't be left up for children to decide. I am a realist, and brutaly honest when it comes to things. However, most people just want to make everyone happy in life, which can not happen.

My nephew is 8 and is very good at sports. Last year, he played baseball through the entire summer and into the next school year, as well as playing football and soccer. Needless to say, he was well burned out before the summer ended, and I really believe that as a result, he is perfering to play football more. Not sure yet, due to the fact that he is a child and kids change their minds like Louisiana weather.

I will give my son every opportunity to succeed in life. But with whatever he chooses to do, he WILL undetstand that hard work and dedication is how someone succeeds in life.