In the last four or five years, I've noticed that participation in Little League, Pony and other leagues has dwindled while travel teams have increased 10 fold. A great many of travel team players lack fundamentals that the leagues taught at an early age. In the past,travel ball was played after the league season was over and the better players played all stars or went to a travel team.
A lot of the players on travel ball teams are middle of the road league players in the past and when they come to H.S., a good many of them don't understand why they are not playing or starting.
I guess my question is how can we save league ball or is it worth saving? Over the years, I've seen a lot of "late bloomers" in league ball that may not get the chance to learn if the leagues are gone. Now there are travel teams starting to play during the H.S. season, will this be the demise of H.S. ball.
It's all ready happening with "kick ball" will it happen to baseball?
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