The recent fight among parents at a youth baseball game in Colorado is just one more episode in what seems to be a growing trend. There are many possible explanations for why this kind of thing keeps happening, many of them by now familiar: parental egos, parents living vicariously through their kids, parents spending big money on club or travel teams, feeling that more is at stake, the often misguided quest for a college scholarship, and so on.
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