Here’s my thought on it. Baseball and softball scholarships are rarely full rides. Investing the money you would spend playing travel ball on your kids education fund. Most would come out ahead and have the kids college paid for by graduation.

We play a regional Rec ball league March-May. Played double headers either Friday night or Saturday and we played 1 game every Tuesday night as well. It’s fun, good competition and the kids loved it (12u). My son has a hell of a bat but as of right now he doesn’t have the speed to play at the college level and may not ever. I’m ok with that and he is too! 2 teams tried to pick him up strictly for his batting and he said nope. I realize I’m in the minority here but there’s way more to life than kids sports and the amount of money it costs to play travel ball is just stupid.