Nothing like travel tball

TREX01 said:

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Nothing like travel coach pitch

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Make sure your kid is having fun, it's their childhood and it won't last long.

No matter what you think or how good they are, it's a rediculous amount of time they sacrifice for baseball in high school.

They will be wanting to do summer internships by their sophomore summer. Grades and test scores become much more important. Baseball starts to feel like a childs game.

Keep it fun as long as you can.

I hope not. Way too young.

I wish they would make laws against playing select/travel ball before the age of 12.

My son just turned 9 and is playing his first ever year of ball. He really loves it so far. He's the smallest kid on the team, and is just learning how to play catch and swing a bat. Who knows how long it will be before he can catch a fly ball. He's playing Mustang, and in his first ever game, his first at-bat, he led off the inning against this kid who was built like David Wells and had the fast-ball to go with it. This kid must've been throwing 60, and he had no idea where it was going. My son is so innocent that he doesn't even know enough to be scared yet. He got in there and swung at a ball over his head on the first pitch, about a second late too. I'm just praying that he can get it over with. On the second pitch, by some miracle he hit a foul tip. I was beaming. Then I saw him turn around and say "ouch." Turns out the ball had hit him in the hand. Coach came down from third base and looked at him, rubbed some dirt on it, and he went back in the box. My kid loves that orange dirt - who knows, it may actually have healing powers...anyway, on the next pitch, he struck out, but hustled down to first on the ubiquitous dropped third strike (side note: do not ever leave 1st base occupied with < 2 outs in Mustang, or else the batter won't be able to run). Several pitches later, my son scored like a boss on a wild pitch, starting the 5 run rally that propelled us to a heart-stopping, no, heart-warming, 9-8 victory.

First time I've played actual baseball since 1990. There's no way we're gonna not let this be fun. Screw travelling leagues and all that mess. My son is becoming a ball-player, just like every male in our family for 5 generations.