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atmosphere it's easy to recruit quali-
fied coaches from parents.
"We've had almost no confronta-
tions in recent seasons," Phelps says.
"Back around 1970, though, the direc-
tors sometimes wanted to kill parents
from a few packs. They would razz the
other team and argue with umpires.
But somebody from our committee
would have a talk with the coach, and
he would talk with parents, and soon
they were much better."
Mothers and dads are still plentiful
at games, but now most of them sit
chatting quietly in the shade, one large
group of parents for both teams. Some
parents are usually busy preparing re-
freshments for a postgame party.
Others, as assistant coaches, may
stroll onto the field between plays to
whisper advice to players. This is al-
lowed, under certain constraints, be-
cause many younger Cub Scouts have
little baseball knowledge or experi-
ence. And coaching is always offered as
encouragement, because the BSA
leader guide forbids publicly scolding
or ridiculing players.
League play is by age groups. The A
League is for boys 11 or 12 years old
who are registered in Scouting. (The
age limit was raised because so many
Cub Scouts, graduating into troops,
begged to play another year. The
troops didn't mind, so 120 younger Boy
Scouts were in the league last sum-
mer.)
The B League, for boys 9 or 10, en-
courages players to develop batting
confidence by letting adults pitch to
their own team's hitters. Pitching can
be from any distance, overhand or un-
derhand.
The C League, for boys 6 to 8, has no
pitching at all; each batter hits the ball
off a waist-high tee.
Not all eligible Cub Scouts try for a
team; some have scheduling conflicts
and others simply don't care for base-
ball. In all, about a third of all Bakers-
field Cub Scouts take part in the
baseball program.
"Baseball is Bakersfield's summer
program for Cub Scouts," says Michael
Randolph, assistant Scout executive in
the tri-county Southern Sierra Council.
Few packs meet in the summer be-
cause of the heat, but pack families see
each other twice a week at ball games,
Randolph explains. "It's the same as
being in a Scoutorama or a week-long
day camp, of which we have five in
Bakersfield," he says. "Baseball is one
of the tools we use for attracting boys,
keeping them in a pack, and holding
the pack together." ■
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