True, just a decent kids bat will run you a couple hundred,
Posted on: April 16, 2024 at 12:42:00 CT
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Good ones are about triple that. And most have a relatively short shelf life so you will likely be buying your kid several before he is finished.
If parents realized the money they pumped into summer ball, club teams and AAU chasing college scholarships had just been invested instead they would have come out way ahead.
I have a nephew who is playing at a small NAIA school on a partial baseball scholarship. To get him there his parents had him on travel teams for about ten years. Between the costs of the teams, the equipment and travel at least a couple times a month they came out far in the hole. Now the kid absolutely loves the game, he interned for the Monarchs last summer and hopes to work for a major league team some day. If that works out it was worth the investment for them.