OT: Your Baseball Playing Days

[tbob]

I played catcher from Little League through high school, good hitter for average but little power. Good defensively but not the fleetest afoot.
American Legion used to be wonderful. When I coached and we won a State Championship in 1989 it was one of the greatest days of my life. Unfortunately kids started finding other things to do during the summer from video games to working to just hanging out and no longer wanted to put in the time necessary for all the practices and games and started playing Senior Babe Ruth instead which had few practices and fewer games. But most importantly, football became a 12 month sport down South with spring football and summer camps and basketball became a year round sport also with summer camps, AAU basketball, etc. Sadly the 3 sport athletes are only a memory as kids want to specialize in one sport.