What's your budget? You should also consider the lens. Summer light is great, but night or overcast you should consider a 2.8 aperture lens (unless you are able to use a flash and are close enough to provide light). The lens brand should match the camera brand. There are logs of cheaper lens brands, but you will notice the difference. If you want to stop the action, you need a high shutter speed (you can only go so high without light (low aperture = more light)). The two work together to make a good picture. No matter the camera the lens will make or break the photo. Megapixels are nice, but are really only necessary if you plan on cropping and enlarging the photo or printing larger than 4x6 / 8x10. If your budget permits, the higher mega pixels the better. When you take your picture, if you can not zoom in, you need to use the compute to crop and enlarge. That is when you need the megapixels. Also, if you are taking pictures and want to see the sequence of the pitch from start to finish, you need to consider how many frames per second is the camera capable of taking. Sometimes video recorders are better for this, but the newer SLR's also do video in the same quality as they take still pictures.