2nd kid doing the whole youth baseball travel experience.
1st one is Pitching D1, but I can guarantee you we spent more on baseball than his scholarship is paying, but we wouldn't trade the memories, car rides, time spent together as a family for anything.
Good luck as you get older.
Luckily for our youngest (8th grade this year) we've got a team that is "funded". The "managers" only requirement is that the $ that we are saving by not having to pay for coaches, uniforms, practice fields, tournament fees, etc, is that we put that money back training for our son so that he can perform on the team.
Last year 13U bought the 31/26 Louisville Slugger Prime 2 Piece ($399) as we thought it would last 2 years................
Nope, this year since his team is going to play mostly 15U in the summer we had to buy a BBCOR (luckily I talked him down in price due to fact that he'd need a 33 by his sophomore year), so we ended up with the DeMarini Voodoo Endloaded 2 Piece ($299) 32/29.
Oh wait, since we are playing wood bat tournaments this summer and attending Perfect Game Showcases, and his wood cage bat is now too small.................so, 1 new cage bat $89 and 2 new game/showcase bats Marucci Pro-Maple ($149/each).
Add in a new glove every year (replacing IF or OF glove) at 300 each.
2 trips to Atlanta this summer for PG tournaments
1 trip to Florida this summer for PG Showcase
1 trip / camp at Vanderbilt this summer
Batting Lessons twice a week
Speed training for the year
Yoga for the year
January-July we show up at home to sleep.
My wife just SMH.