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Reply to "Where Are The Baseball Players Going?"

Francis7 posted:
2019OF posted:

10 years ago kids played baseball even if they didn't want to because someone made them. Parents are less likely to make their kids play a sport, and most don't have passion for it anyway so they'd rather play video games. Nothing wrong with it, just the way it is.

I think this is part of it on the youth level.  Go back to the 1970's.  There was no youth soccer, LAX, ice hockey, etc.  You wanted your kid to do something outside in the spring, he played baseball.  Today, if the parent just wants to get them off the couch, there's other sports to "play" where you can also "hide" better on the field if you really don't have the skill for it.

I think this is the real story, there are tons of options now.  I live in GA now, and baseball is still huge with travel ball, and reasonable rec leagues exist as well, but the kids I teach pretty much all play multiple sports in MS. Mostly by HS, they're picking one or two. Sometimes baseball makes the cut, sometimes it doesn't.

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