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Re: Dear American Sportsball Fans...

[(Anonymous)]

Forgive me here, may I ask a Clarification. If baseball is a summer sport, does that mean there isn't a school team since American summer school holidays are three months long? And do children play on more than one team? Tv and Movies often seem to make it out that if someone is on the football team, typically in quarterbacks position, then they are not on any other team. Or if they do basketball, typically as a powerforwards guard, they just do basketball. Is that not the Case?

Re: Dear American Sportsball Fans...

[(Anonymous)]

Kids 12 and under tend to play Little League which is unrelated to school. It’s a late spring through summer thing.
In high school, baseball is played in the spring, usually starting practice in January or February but not playing games until March.
Summer break isn’t three months long anymore in many school districts. More every year go to year round schooling, so the summer break is only 5-6 weeks.

Re: Dear American Sportsball Fans...

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

The answer to both of these questions is basically "it depends".

For the baseball season, yes, this is a case where the season is different for pro and amateur levels. School teams will usually play their seasons in spring mostly into early summer, and then be done, while the professional league plays into September and October. However, while the school teams don't play over the summer, high school players will often play on amateur traveling teams during the summer and keep playing baseball - just for a different team.

With regard to playing multiple sports, this is something that's sort of changed over time. Historically the norm was that athletes would play multiple sports in high school and so it was really common for people to be on the basketball team and also the football and baseball teams,or whatever. And there have been a ton of American athletes who could have gone pro in multiple sports - John Elway could have played football or basketball, for instance - and a few who actually have played multiple sports as pros, like Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders.

However, it's become increasingly common for players to concentrate on just one sport by the time they're in high school. So nowadays, it's a lot more likely that someone will only play their one sport. And like I mentioned with baseball above, they'll often play during the season with their high school, then go off and play on traveling or select teams the rest of the year.

And this is actually a really bad trend for two reasons. One, it leads to a lot more stress and injuries - if you're playing the same sport all year long, you're putting a lot of mileage on the same body parts. And two, crosstraining at multiple sports has a lot of athletic advantages in terms of flexibility and athletic microskills. But unfortunately there's really strong pressure on kids to get noticed by scouts and so there's a sense that they have to keep playing constantly. It's actually kind of a bad system.

Re: Dear American Sportsball Fans...

[(Anonymous)]

+1, OP this is a good bit of info and also leads into why baseball isn't anywhere near as much of a thing as football and basketball in several regions of the country. Definitely in the midwest, our schools barely give half a shit about baseball because the "season" is inconvenient for mantaining a team and there's really not an incentive like there is for football, basketball, volleyball, and track. That is, all those sports have very big state finals and championships to vie for, many of which are actually televised in mid-sized local markets. Even in Minnesota and Wisconsin you can see high school footbal and basketball games on local tv channnels. But baseball's season is so short for reasons airt laid out, and there's not really a championship level once you're older than Little League (grade school). If it doesn't have a trophy goal, ain't no one give a shit about it.

The third sport in the midwest is definitely volleyball, idk what it would be in other regions. Hockey? Wrestling? Track & Field? I've heard of all of those being big in some states.

Re: Dear American Sportsball Fans...

[(Anonymous)]

Soccer in some places for sure.

Re: Dear American Sportsball Fans...

[(Anonymous)]

fuck me, how did I forget soccer? given that the school half a mile from me has a summer league with games almost every night I'm out for a walk. showing my age maybe - in the 90s soccer was still an outsider sport slowly catching on in the US.