I think this is a YMMV situation epending on the culture of your town and your school. We recently (one year ago) moved from Denver to a small town in southeastern Colorado. In Denver, you can be a first round draft pick and no one in town has even heard of you. IN fact, Halliday went to the school around the corner from my house and I barely knew his name. Here in this town of under 8,000 baseball is king. The school has seven state titles in the past 20 years and has produced four major league pitchers. Think football in small town Texas. That's what baseball is here. If you're a stud on the baseball team, you're a celebrity. Your picture is in the paper every couple of days and your a hero to younger kids. My son is eating it up with a spoon and, whereas he'd never talked about high school ball in the past (only college), now it's a focused goal. He loves it here in the small pond.