The joy of spontaneity.

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Posted by ghost of olddude55 (A) on October 28, 2022 at 11:14:06

In Reply to: Traveling leagues at age 8 posted by Dave_K on October 28, 2022 at 05:56:16:

Wake up one sunny, summer morning, go find some friends, have a pickup game. It just isn't done these days.
It's a long tradition here to lock kids out of taxpayer-funded baseball fields. When I was a teenager and we wanted to use the borough's baseball fields, the cops would make us leave. Nobody else was using them, Little League season used to end in June back then. We'd have to find some overgrown backlot or play in somebody's yard.
I take my grandsons to couple of different City parks. The playgrounds are always busy, basketball courts, hell even pickleball, those courts are always in use.
The baseball field stands empty, and the City doesn't lock kids out during the day, that's a suburban thing.
Somewhere along the line in the US, baseball threw away what it had with kids. It's different in Korea, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the DR. Here in the US, kids don't care about the sport anymore. Real shame.

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Topic - For the first time since 1950, there are no Black Americans in the World Series - PabloP 20:11:45 10/27/22 (13)

RE: For the first time since 1950, there are no Black Americans in the World Series - pondfish50 11:57:12 10/29/22 (0)

False: Dusty Baker nt - www.records 19:09:16 10/28/22 (0)

and probably the reverse in basketball? - LtMandella 09:53:34 10/28/22 (0)

RE: For the first time since 1950, there are no Black Americans in the World Series - Inmate51 06:27:52 10/28/22 (0)

Why spend years toiling in the minors, when you can come straight out of...- - Chris Garrett 04:33:19 10/28/22 (7)

Dunno about your section of the country... - ghost of olddude55 04:42:39 10/28/22 (6)

Traveling leagues at age 8 - Dave_K 05:56:16 10/28/22 (2)

The joy of spontaneity. - ghost of olddude55 10/28/2211:14:06 10/28/22 (1)

That spontaneity is gone - Dave_K 10:20:04 10/29/22 (0)

Football and Basketball offer "immediate gratification"... - dark_dave56 05:46:46 10/28/22 (0)

MLB has the Latin-American markets to draw from...- - Chris Garrett 04:57:50 10/28/22 (1)

Baseball got short shrift even as far back as when I was in HS. - ghost of olddude55 05:00:13 10/28/22 (0)

The Pittsburgh Pirates fielded the first all Black lineup. - ghost of olddude55 03:29:29 10/28/22 (0)

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The joy of spontaneity. - ghost of olddude55 10/28/2211:14:06 10/28/22 (1)

That spontaneity is gone - Dave_K 10:20:04 10/29/22 (0)

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