Is that really what it has come to - kids just don't leave the house anymore and aren't involved in many extra-curricular activities? I would agree with the statements above that there are empty ball diamonds and playgrounds all throughout our small town, and the only time you ever see anyone out there, is when there is an organized ball practice/game.
Maybe it just isn't baseball, maybe it is sport in general? I know when I was a kid there just wasn't anything to do inside, so we were outside all the time. Heck I would get my parents drive me over to a friend's house because he had an outfield shaped lawn with trees surrounding it. Was rather small, so we used to spend hours picking cow hair off a barbed wire fence to make a ball that was challenging to hit a home run with. When it got dark, we would put flood lights up in the outfield and continue to play. It was just the way it was.
It really is alarming to how few kids you see anymore doing anything physical.
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