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[QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 2968739, member: 519"]
A kid from my son's travel team who couldn't even get on the field went on to become the starting SS at Bucknell for four years. My son gave them a look but not much more than that. Still, even that lower level D1 is good ball.

We played at Cooperstown Dreams Park in 2004. Made two tours out there, one in July for fun and another in late August to compete for the national championship. The talent level there is ridiculous for that age, the 64 best teams in the country. As your Wisconsin friend said, the California, Texas and Florida teams dominate. His team made it to the national semi-finals but got beat there by a team from South Carolina that went on to win it all. There was some bad blood between the coaches. Our pitcher drilled their lead off to begin the game, not the greatest lesson to teach kids. A*s hat coaches. Anyway, my son struck out swinging on a 3-2 count in the bottom of the 7th with the bags full down a run to end the game. Oh well, that's baseball I told him. The day before he'd lit it up. And you're right, there's youth baseball and then there's the kids that play year round. It's a whole other level. And, yes ringers were regularly flown in to pitch a game or two.

In the end of October, there's a tournament in Vegas with all the best teams on the West coast including Arizona and Nevada. So one night game maybe again in 2004 this kid comes to the plate a beefy lefty and hits the ball 8 miles over the right center wall. And he does it again and then again. I'd never seen a kid swing that hard. Turns out it was Bryce Harper.
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