The Dark Side of the Diamond

Youth Baseball Is Broken

This is a little different than most Dark Side of the Diamond post…

When I grew up, there was Little League baseball. That was it. No travel teams, no national showcases, no private coaches. Just a handful of teams, a dusty field, and a bunch of kids figuring it out with what we had.

Parents came to the games, but they weren’t exactly locked in. They brou…