Despite Video-Game Mania, Little League Baseball Still Hits It Off With Kids
Having conceded some time ago that the usual childhood in America is being despairingly twisted by the current popularity of moronically violent video games, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the nations young have not been entirely removed from what is generally considered a bedrock of normal American development: Little League Baseball.
I was recently invited by a dear friend to attend a game, in which, expectedly enough, her son was playing.
I was game to go partly because I myself had had taken part, if ever so briefly, in the sport in my own adolescence. My career as a pitcher ended when I unfortunately beaned the coach and voluntarily walked off the field, so shamed I swore never to return again.
Still unconvinced that the time-worn throwback could still attract our youth, even in this digitally bedazzled age, I went off to the event.
Sure enough, there upon the field were arrayed preteens and teenagers, outfitted in baseball uniforms touting the usual major league properties such as the Mets and the invariable Dodgers.
Within hardly an inning,...
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