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We don't play high school ball up here so the only route is to play in the community leagues. Because baseball in more a minor sport up here there is much less of the 'stage mothers' pushing their kids. Hockey up here is the crazy one with parents wanting their kids to play pro....spending big bucks on hockey camp and travelling teams.....not to mention fighting other parents in the stands. Hockey is a zoo with the parents as the animals.Definitely different than here in Texas. Little Leagues are dying. There are kids passing up playing on the high school team because it interferes with their travel ball team schedule, and because they claim only the travel ball rejects have to resort to playing in high school. Of course, most of them can’t really play worth a durn anyway. I agree that money buys all manner of tools and resources. It still doesn’t buy talent, however. Too many parents are blind to that fact.