White is Right?

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

I tell you what I've seen in person and thats in baseball. But, its not a black or white thing. It's a middle class, poor thing. Playing little league baseball in the summer at one of the top levels costs $7,000 - $10,000 a summer per team. If your family doesn't have the money, or find a team with a sponsor, your kid plays recreational baseball.

Working at a high school, I see this all the time. Our entire baseball team, except for a few notable exceptions (naturally gifted athletes) consists of kids from traveling squads who have affluent families that can shell out the bucks for them to be on a traveling squad. No one else even tries out for the team once they get to the high school level. We've also won like 5 state championships in a row.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by NewPhin

Working at a high school, I see this all the time. Our entire baseball team, except for a few notable exceptions (naturally gifted athletes) consists of kids from traveling squads who have affluent families that can shell out the bucks for them to be on a traveling squad. No one else even tries out for the team once they get to the high school level. We've also won like 5 state championships in a row.

Yeah, I tried fighting against it, by not traveling for tournaments farther than we could drive in a half a day, got sponsors to help keep done the costs. Preached learning fundamentals and sportsmanship. If a parent didn't have the money to pay their share of the team funds, I payed it. But, in doing those things I was never able to atract the best talent in KC because we didn't travel to Texas, Florida etc for tournaments. And we would be a top 5 ranked team in the state almost every year. To use a college analogy....I could get the 3-4 star recruits but not the 5 star ones.