Originally part of SI for Kids, Sports Illustrated has created a separate site, SportsParents . There are also message boards and on-line chats with experts. Look especially at What Kids Say . Parents and coaches need to hear and heed. ListBot Sometimes, we need to stop and think about why we do what we do.
Baseball is fathers and sons.
Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard, violent and superficial. Baseball is the generations, looping backward forever with a million apparitions of sticks and balls, cricket and rounders, and the games the Iroquois played in Connecticut before the English came. Baseball is fathers and sons playing catch, lazy and murderous, wild and controlled, the profound archaic song of birth, growth, age, and death. This diamond encloses what we are. Not to offend anyone - especially football coaches.