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

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FoxDad posted:
My nephew has played hockey for years. Yes, it's very expensive. In addition to equipment, the team fees are very high. Ice time is not cheap. Imagine having to pay to use a baseball field every time the team needed to practice. In our county, there's no charge for using county owned fields except the HS whose use is controlled by the AD (non HS teams are charged $100/hour for use of the baseball/softball fields).

Correct. And the article I posted notes: "The NHL audience is the richest of all professional sports. One-third of its viewers make more than $100k, compared to about 19 percent of the general population."

I personally don't think that is the right direction for baseball to head.

9/29/1610:25 AM

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