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Youth Baseball Costs Spiral With $500 Bats and Travel Teams
Original: Advanced Stats and $500 Bats: Why Baseball for 6-Year-Olds Is Breaking the Bank
Youth baseball has become a big-money enterprise, with parents of children as young as six paying hundreds of dollars for equipment, private coaching and travel-team fees. Wall Street Journal reporting highlights how advanced statistics and specialized gear once reserved for professionals have trickled down to little league, pushing families' annual spending on the sport into the thousands.
Why now: Parents are reacting to how expensive competitive youth sports have become, even at the youngest ages.
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