Is slow pitch dying?

[greymule]

Glad to hear slow pitch is thriving elsewhere. Of course, it's not dead here—I still got in 80 games as a fill-in ump when I wasn't doing FP or Modified.

I guess part of it is demographics in this area. SP was once very popular in Princeton, but with the cheapest single-family house now costing $350,000, young blue-collar guys are not easy to find. The population is growing fast, but the professionals from the Far East don't play softball, and the Guatamalans play soccer. (Without immigrants from those places, New Jersey's population would be shrinking.) And perhaps the neighboring townships are indeed aging, with fewer young people interested in playing. Maybe with the next generation, SP will rebound.

I've also heard that the local politicians feel there are more votes in youth sports than in adult softball leagues.