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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks. [/quote]

Much of baseball these days are money grabs. That is why there are so many adults running teams now.  The travel clubs get money from the parents, pay the tournament hosts registration fees, and the tournament hosts pay college coaches to show up. These combine things are the worst.[/quote]

Yes, youth baseball has become a business. I’m not sure it is one that is terribly lucrative - maybe one or two owners of these big places make a six figure income, but the coaches, trainers, tournament directors, etc are making blue collar wages. Would the world be nicer if baseball was still the sandlot? Yeah, maybe. But it’s not. And as a mom of a baseball-mad teenager who can only envision a career in baseball and refuses to consider anything else, I wish there was a middle-class income open to him. There really isn’t. Which brings me back to baseball being a money grab. If it is, who is grabbing all that money? When you do the math you realize how little each coach is making. You wouldn’t work for that wage.[/quote]

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