What's the goal of kids sports? World Series champ offers perspective
It's Memorial Day weekend. Are you racing off to a travel tournament? Ryan Zimmerman shares how we can lose our grip on reality with youth sports.
COLLEGE PARK, MD — To Ryan Zimmerman, the field was a safe space. “You can fail, you can succeed,” says the former World Series champion and father of four. “Whatever happens on the field happens on the field, and you learn that lesson, good or bad.
“And then you go to the snack bar. ” There was just so much else to do. “I enjoyed playing baseball, basketball, I played football,” says Zimmerman, 41.
“I grew up a couple blocks away from the beach, so I surfed and did water sports. Some days I didn't do anything. Just played with my friends.
” Something since his salad days of the mid-to-late 1990s has changed. As Zimmerman sees it, parents have lost their grip on the percentages of getting to where he did. He is spot on .
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