quote:Originally posted by RJM:
About three years ago somewhere in the DC area a guy started a summer camp based on the concept of playing pickup sports all day. I have no idea if it's been successful.
A while back on a message board somewhere (not HSBBW I don't believe), I brought up the idea of an "organized sandlot" league if that makes any sense. Basically, there would be some sort of adult supervision, but no coaching or anything like that. I just don't think in most situations a parent is going to let their kid out of their sight without some sort of supervision. So, I know this isn't how it used to be back in the good ole days, but it may be a necessary evil.
Basically, kids could just show up and join a team and play ball. No need for umpires, coaches, etc. There would be no set schedule for your kid, so if you have something already going on for Tuesday night, just show up Wednesay instead. It would be less stress on the parents to be here at this time or else....it would be less stress on the kids because they wouldn't have some coach screaming at them when they let the routine grounder go through their legs.
I think it could work. Of course, when I brought it up, everyone said "that's not how its supposed to be....the point of sandlot baseball is no adults". Well, like I said, that's great in theory, but that's just not going to happen in reality IMO