From: Cynthia (cyn386@flash.net)
Date: Fri Jun 25 1999 - 19:16:22 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> Baseball? I can't think of what instills /better/ values in
> young minds. Patience and urgency, individual effort and teamwork,
> strategy and chance, humility and hubris, capitalism and sacrifice,
> tradition and novelty, honesty and deception. I can't think of a
> better way for a child to learn about all those things than to go
> outside, pick up a glove and experience them directly.
Baseball teaches you that if you are a klutz, that you are a thorn in
everyone else's side. And most games are organized by adult coaches, with
the kids basically doing what they are told to do, instead of experimenting
on their own.
I used to organize my sisters and we used to put on shows. Now, that was a
group effort that allowed everybody to contribute their own unique talents
to.
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