The hook there is two things IMO...HOF and typically there are 30+ states represented each week and you won't play someone from your state unless you catch them in the bracket. That was pretty cool. Sitting out in a lawn chair talking baseball with guys from CA, AZ, TX and IA all at the same time was a lot of fun. Sort of like here!
The cost is pretty high although not absurdly so. The trick is not to go crazy in the souvenier store and buy 25 pictures, t-shirts, bats etc. THAT stuff adds up fast.
The real beef I had was the facility itself was crap and falling apart year over year. So unless they've addressed that you will see some pretty choppy fields, fading, splintering fencing and crummy sheds being called barracks. I also wonder where the Board of Heath guy will retire on the money he gets for looking the other way on the bathrooms. Those things were something else.