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Reply to "Left Out--How Baseball Leaves Low Income Kids Behind"

The RBI program depends a lot on who's handling it in that particular city.  When my son was 13 we played the Detroit RBI team.   It was ridiculous....team was awful....except for one kid.  Coaches had kids on the team and those kids were pitcher, CF and SS....but wouldn't have seen the field on even mediocre 13U teams.  The coaches were disrespectful to everyone....umpires, opposing team and tourney directors.

At 16U I ran a tourney...had the 16U Cincinnati RBI program in it.  Nicest bunch of kids/coaches we ever ran into....very respectful....played hard and had some real talented kids.  Their players, parents and coaches were a very classy group.  Our tourney had 24 teams and every team that had interaction with them over the weekend commented about how much they enjoyed playing them.  You could tell those kids didn't come from big $$$ households....they were just happy to be playing in a good tourney at some great college fields....and having a good time doing it.

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