[deathpunk dan]

congrats to your son!
I was *obsessed* with baseball from age 10-13. I was one of the shortest and skinniest players on every team I was on, but I went from being the kid you put in the game just long enough to satifsy the minimum playing time requirements (ie 2 inning in right field and one at bat) to a few years later making the all star team, and even making the high school varsity team as a sophmore and being on the 1994 state championship team. I went to every baseball clinic and camp within 200 miles and drove my parents insane.

Bill Lee - who I discovered when I was not quite 12 years old (so you *know* I was a weird little kid) said

"Baseball is the belly button of America"

I love to see kids getting into the game nowadays, with so many districts and towns showing plummeting little league enrollment numbers. When was the last time you saw kids even playing a pickup game or even just playing catch???