05-05-2008, 01:10 PM
I want to apologize if I was strident about this earlier. I'm a youth coach and seeing how starved youth sports are for funds the idea of contributing to a Major League Teams bottom line upset me.
For myself I've funded two baseball scholarships at the park where I coach basketball. The baseball coaches will decide who gets them. The only proviso is that they go to a boy or girl who has never (due to family financial circumstance) had a chance to be on a Little league or Park League team before.
In policy the LA City Park Department is supposed to offer this sort of opportunity, the sad fact is that in the kids whose parents can pay are the ones who get to play.
For myself I've funded two baseball scholarships at the park where I coach basketball. The baseball coaches will decide who gets them. The only proviso is that they go to a boy or girl who has never (due to family financial circumstance) had a chance to be on a Little league or Park League team before.
In policy the LA City Park Department is supposed to offer this sort of opportunity, the sad fact is that in the kids whose parents can pay are the ones who get to play.