re: Travel teams eroding community baseball

I don't have a practice without going over base running. Don't run one of the drills correct and the whole team starts over. Someone else does it wrong, the team takes a lap around the field to clear their heads and talk to each other about why it is important to pay attention. Don't run out a hit ball and you can go sit with your parents in the stands since you like watchingbaseball so much. Baseball fundamentals have nothing to do with the level of competition you are playing against, and everything to do with how it is presented. Kids need a good structured environment to learn in and a teacher/coach that understands it is a process. If we are all learning and progressing, we will have fun. If we have knuckle heads that want to interrupt learning, we will be the most in shape team that can't catch fly balls.