Showball is located in California and had contacted my son to participate in their showcase. After checking them out a little on their website, we decided to give it a shot. My advice: Don't!
The showcase is a three day event with the first day consisting of a skills test (took half of the day) and the rest of the day sitting in the hotel listening to a motivational speaker. Here's the part that made me feel like my wallet was ripped from my pants... the second and third days had only one modified game (each day) in showcase format (batters starting with 1 ball and 1 strike), bat through the lineup, etc.
Yeah the boys got to play in Dodger stadium, but all of the down time offset the fact that each kid had to pay $650 to attend. Oh, and I almost forgot about the advertised "player evaluations". While there were representatives from 10 D1 colleges there, the players were far from provided evaluations. Rather, they were just given the "results" of their skills day. This was a very big let down.
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