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I agree that we somehow need to get pickup games back into kid's lives. The trouble is that times have changed. I'm 21 now; I remember back to when I was 10-14. I had these two friends and we always wanted to play baseball. A few times we tried to get together our other friends/schoolmates to play a game. What happened? Never any more that 8-10 of us showed up. Now it is possible to play baseball with 5 a side, but it's not the greatest thing in the world.
Even now I go with a few college buddies to the softball fields near campus. If there is a casual game going on, it's not casual enough to allow a few players to simply join in.
There are organized slowpitch leagues, of course; but there's a certain appeal to pickup games of baseball/slowpitch.
Ten years ago, we wanted nothing more than to play pickup sandlot baseball. But no one else did. Nintendo, school activities, and general apathy towards fun got in the way. It seems to be the same now as a young adult. Too bad.
P-Sz
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