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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Travel baseball is a May-April grouping. My son with an April 30 birthday is the youngest and plays on teams with kids with May birthdays from the previous year.

So if you have a late spring/summer birthday, your kid will be one of the older ones on the team.[/quote]

Ours is National LL and August 31 cut off. Is your kid going to have issues when he gets to school/grade based teams in high and all his peers have been playing in an older and more competitive division?  [/quote]

PP said the kid is the youngest.

My kid (softball) will fall under what you are talking about. Early September birthday, youngest in her class, so by grade would be a year up compared to what she'd be by August 31 cut-off. That means would play a year down - if staying with age - compared to August and earlier birthday peers in class. Our options are assume she can keep up with the competition but don't actually try it, play her up, or (not happening) hold her back in school.

The corner cases and endless discussion are what leads me to think there's always going to be winners and losers no matter what you pick. I can see why sports are starting to go with whatever's easier for the recruiting college coaches.[/quote]

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