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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 188236" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I don't really know how I feel about this. My son played baseball for eight years and the skill levels vary a lot at this age. Not all 9 and 10 year olds are beginners ... some of them are pretty darned good. A lot of them start playing T-ball when they're five and by nine some are very good players. This boy probably doesn't belong on a team of beginners playing against other beginners, and partly for his own good too. What will HE be learning if he's not challenged! They say he's never hit anyone or hurt any other player but I can understand the other parents worrying about it. But to <em>ban</em> him from playing ... absolutely NOT! If you want to look at it that way, probably most of the guys playing in the Major Leagues now were better than the other kids their age when they were playing Little League. Should they have been <em>forbidden</em> to play - of course not!</p><p> </p><p>We live in a very small town and they're lucky to come up with two full teams in each age group. But one strict rule is that kids must play with their own age group - not by what grade they're in but by age with a birthdate cut-off. I have seen a lot of "manuvering" though by the coaches and league management about which kids play on which team. Most leagues try to divide them up evenly. The manager of our league had a son a year older than my son, and this kid was a pretty good player. When his own son was 9, the 9 and 10 year old age group was divided pretty evenly between the two teams as far as age and skill level. The next year when his kid was 10 (and mine was 9) they put all the 10 year olds on one team and all the 9 year olds on the other except for one other little boy who was very advanced! Of course, the 10 year old team won ALL their games and the 9 year olds LOST all of theirs except for one! Curiously enough, the next year when his son was out of this age group, they went back to dividing them evenly again! You wouldn't believe how riled up small town folks can get about something like this! Lots of hard feelings!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 188236, member: 1883"] I don't really know how I feel about this. My son played baseball for eight years and the skill levels vary a lot at this age. Not all 9 and 10 year olds are beginners ... some of them are pretty darned good. A lot of them start playing T-ball when they're five and by nine some are very good players. This boy probably doesn't belong on a team of beginners playing against other beginners, and partly for his own good too. What will HE be learning if he's not challenged! They say he's never hit anyone or hurt any other player but I can understand the other parents worrying about it. But to [I]ban[/I] him from playing ... absolutely NOT! If you want to look at it that way, probably most of the guys playing in the Major Leagues now were better than the other kids their age when they were playing Little League. Should they have been [I]forbidden[/I] to play - of course not! We live in a very small town and they're lucky to come up with two full teams in each age group. But one strict rule is that kids must play with their own age group - not by what grade they're in but by age with a birthdate cut-off. I have seen a lot of "manuvering" though by the coaches and league management about which kids play on which team. Most leagues try to divide them up evenly. The manager of our league had a son a year older than my son, and this kid was a pretty good player. When his own son was 9, the 9 and 10 year old age group was divided pretty evenly between the two teams as far as age and skill level. The next year when his kid was 10 (and mine was 9) they put all the 10 year olds on one team and all the 9 year olds on the other except for one other little boy who was very advanced! Of course, the 10 year old team won ALL their games and the 9 year olds LOST all of theirs except for one! Curiously enough, the next year when his son was out of this age group, they went back to dividing them evenly again! You wouldn't believe how riled up small town folks can get about something like this! Lots of hard feelings! [/QUOTE]
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