piaa_ump posted:There was an adage that you should write down all the names of the starters on your sons 12 year old all star team. Store the letter.
Open the letter and check it against the starters of his HS baseball team his senior year.
In my sons case........only 3 were starters on both lists.
None of the kids on my son's 12 year old team (travel, not all-stars, though) were starters their senior year in HS, including him (he didn't play HS ball his senior year). Also true of his 13 & 14 year old teams (basically same group of kids those two years). AFAIK, he's the only one from those years playing college ball, and he's one of three from his graduating class in HS (like 800 kids, FWIW) who went on to play college ball (though one of those sat out an academic year at some point, so is now a class behind him).