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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, third grade is considered “late” to start, but there won’t be kids that are much much better than him at that age.  Just work with him (play catch) and he should be fine!  My 12yo had kids who were new to the game last year when he played 50/70 (essentially the last year of little league).  
Both ABR and little league are good organizations, but ABR has a draft starting at that age, so you may prefer that versus getting added to an established team.  Little league is also a dying organization in Arlington (fewer teams year to year and ABR is much more popular).  [/quote]

Why is Arlington LL dying? Genuinely curious about this comment and I have no skin in the game.

What makes Arlington Babe Ruth more desirable?[/quote]
Lots of reasons:
— Abr started offering free tball a few years back so there are roughly twice as many kids playing Abr vs little league at the younger ages.
— little league is obsessed with all stars (or at least all the volunteers are).  There was a major rift in the organization and half the exec board left last year because they were fed up with hearing about all stars (and all of the shady politics of adults acting badly associated with it).  Consequently there are very few volunteers affiliated with little league versus Abr.  The organization is so cliquey that there aren’t very many new people volunteering.  In a few years, there won’t be anybody left to run the organization.

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LL has offered free T-ball for a couple of years at least
I do agree that the All stars process felt shady [/quote]

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