What are your thoughts on the right age for a child to be part of a travel baseball team?

I don’t have children old enough to play travel ball, so that is a hard question for me to answer.

Looking at as many ball players that I see, however, I would say that the age of 10 is a good age for travel ball. It also depends what you mean by travel ball--there are so many different types of travel teams. Some play year-round, while some play 9 months out of the year.

I have always said this: For a player to become a better athlete you should play different sports to work on different types of agility and body movements that are specific to that sport. For example, basketball requires a lot of jumping, side-to-side agility and endurance that is great for baseball players.