Originally Posted by InterestedObservor:
This is creeping into travel baseball and softball. 16 teams tournament, broke into A, B, C, D divisions for bracket play. Trophies saying first place AND second place for each division. Half the teams left with a plastic trophy.
That's pretty silly. My 2017 played a lot of travel and some AAU hoops and had about a zillion cheap trophies, phitons, medals, etc. We recently moved him into a different room in our house and it was interesting to see how much of that stuff made it to the new room. A couple of tournament MVP trophies, that's it. The only other stuff pre-high school he kept is the LL pins that you get for winning All Star tournaments. He kept a few HR balls too, but they're on a shelf in his closet.