Most of these sound good, but aren&#x27;t true. If you go to poor countries where baseball is popular, you&#x27;ll see people practicing in the street, with whatever makeshift ball and bat the can find. I saw Cubans practicing with sticks and balls of paper.<p>However, it&#x27;s difficult to get adults to organize that kind of thing. I wonder if the fact that kids need adults to drive them is a factor.<p>That last bit is speculation. What&#x27;s true is that numbers 1-3 aren&#x27;t really a bar to practice, if the kids actually care.