The Shift - The Business of Baseball at The Youth-High School and Professional Level Beede Walter
The Shift - The Business of Baseball at The Youth-High School and Professional Level Beede Walter In my early years as a college coach, while out recruiting several local American Legion and Senior…
Specifikacia The Shift - The Business of Baseball at The Youth-High School and Professional Level Beede Walter
The Shift - The Business of Baseball at The Youth-High School and Professional Level Beede Walter
In my early years as a college coach, while out recruiting several local American Legion and Senior Babe Ruth tournaments, I began to hear about these "AAU" travel baseball tournaments. I was told these teams were made up of the best players from all over New England. This was truly the very beginning of hearing that term, travel baseball.
Attending travel baseball tournaments suddenly became part of my recruiting. As I began to scout and evaluate athletes at these various tournaments, it was clear they were. As both a college head coach and a father, I could see my sons were going to be exposed to a different path than I had been.
What I did not know is that events were already taking place that would make their baseball journeys, and the journeys of so many millions of boys, radically different than the one I experienced.The business of Baseball has grown