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[quote=Anonymous]My son does travel baseball and rec basketball.  Winter rec basketball is two hours a week- one hour of practice and one hour game (personally, I don't think it's enough practice, but it's very light in terms of commitment). If you do spring, summer, or fall basketball in his league, there's no practice, just one game weekly.

His travel baseball team is not an elite showcase team, which is what I think some people here are imagining. Generally, there are two hour practices twice a week and one doubleheader on Sunday, usually in Fairfax/Arlington/Alexandria.  Our coach picks 3 or 4 tournaments a season, most of which are within an hour's drive.  One tournament is out of town, which yes, is a commitment for sure.

No one in our family has any delusions of grandeur of anything beyond making it through each travel season and then reevaluating whether the commitment to travel baseball is good for our family and our son.  He does it because he loves baseball and has fun.  That is all.  He did rec baseball until he aged out.[/quote]

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