Kids Baseball, A Great American Tradition :: Art

Kids Baseball, A Great American TraditionKids baseball is a really great American tradition. Fathers can relate to their kids who play forgetful compact because male adults remember the experience as something vital that taught them life-skills and socialization during their youth. precise League is as American as apple pie and now the put down of the world is finally wonderfully acclimated to enjoying everything American including baseball. Even an institution as wonderful as Little League has its critics. Some complain that it emphasizes competition identicalwise much and that the lesser skilled kids ought to get more playing time. Others cite that the risk of injury is all too real. I believe that Little League is a terrific coming of age growth experience. It teaches kids organizational skills, division of labor, cooperation and competition. By organization I mean nine kids have to function like one unit working under one main coach. In division of labor those same nine kid s must(prenominal) perform different tasks and responsibilities. They must cooperate with each other in order to defeat the opposing team in competition. Vargas Drugstore versus Kiwanis is a small-scale version of Compaq issue up against IBM or General Motors taking on Ford. Thats what makes Little League so uniquely American and why it helps to perpetuate this countrys unparalleled free enterprise value system. For those critics who claim LL is dangerous, there is danger and risk everywhere. If every young boy or girl lived in a protective bubble, no kids would ever interact. Those vocal LL critics should not cross streets, should not walk down crowded aisles in Wal-Mart and should not mow their lawns or point to Wildwood on summer vacation because something threatening might unexpectedly happen. Dangers are all around us, and in Little League competition, injuries happen by hazard and they are not deliberately or maliciously inflicted. I guess thats one particular reason I abs olutely love Little League baseball. I have always been quite fascinated by physical danger and by competition, especially in sports. In 1953 I play Hammonton Little League ball for the town Exchange Club. My coach was Mr. Reid, and his son Bruce was also on the team. frankfurter Reid would come to the practices and help his dad work with the players, and ironically, Franks son Scott wound-up working for me in my boardwalk arcade in Ocean City, Maryland two decades later. From my own life experience, theres no disbelieve in my mind that LL promotes an appreciation of the American free-enterprise economic system.