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[quote=Anonymous]1) parents who are large themselves are more likely to put their sons in baseball- especially club baseball 
2) size (and the accompanying power it brings) is often a factor in who makes a club baseball team in the first place 
3) larger and/or older (in terms of age cutoff) boys often have more success in rec ball- so they & their parents naturally are more likely to see out more competitive baseball opportunities 
4) puberty is beginning earlier for boys these days, as well. Yes, absolutely this can be a factor at age 10- which surprised the heck out of me. Some boys are at the “pudgy” stage at that age- often with a height spurt to follow. Google (which I take with a grain of salt but probably is not that off) says average onset of puberty for boys is age 10-12 and that a 10 year old beginning puberty is within range of normal.  I don’t recall boys already hitting puberty at that age “back in the day” but- as a girl, obviously was not paying any attention to that! [/quote]

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