Any child will benefit from playing baseball with Cupertino Little League. Of course, all athletic activities have positive impacts, but baseball particularly excels in areas such as coordination, focus and ability to withstand pressure. Let’s review the top benefits of baseball for kids, and how Cupertino Little League can help your child grow:
Benefits of baseball for kids
1. Develops Hand-Eye Coordination
Baseball requires a high level of hand-eye coordination because of the precise timing and spatial judgments needed. When catching a ball, children must make sure that their arm and hand movements are aligned with the ball’s trajectory and the timing.
2. Teaches Teamwork
Baseball is a team sport, and success on the field requires players to work together. Children must play together to achieve a common goal. They cheer for one another out of the dugout and must support one another through the games.
3. Helps kids to learn how to fail
Baseball is a game of failure. Hitters fail more often than they succeed. This propensity to not be successful every time teaches children patience and makes them more resilient.
4. Helps with mental focus
There are so many distractions in today’s world and a lot of kids can struggle with the process of focusing their attention. Baseball requires a high level of concentration and rewards children for paying attention to the action and counts (ball/strikes/outs).
5. EVERY child gets an at-bat
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of hitting a home run or making a great play in the field. These moments can do wonders for a kid’s confidence and self-esteem. By learning how to play the game of baseball, kids can develop a sense of pride in their abilities and feel more confident in their own skin. Little League ensures that every kid gets at least an at-bat per game, thus providing an opportunity for everyone to shine and be successful.
6. Helps with math
Academic success is critical for our kids and baseball is the athletic discipline that relies the most on statistics to assess the performance of players. This can be an excellent way for parents to help their children apply what they learned at school: how about applying averages learned at school to your kid’s “batting average” or use this magnificent 1.206 slugging percentage to explain weighted averages?
7. Teaches to be a good human being
At Cupertino Little League, we believe that our objective is to help children become good human beings through baseball. A pitcher can be under an incredible amount of pressure and a show of compassion and support by teammates can make a difference in someone’s game and life. We want kids to learn from these moments and to understand how they can apply to life in general.
8. Friendship & Community
Cupertino Little League is a fantastic way to meet more local families, friends, and neighbors. All players are either Cupertino residents or students. Founded in 1955, Cupertino Little League has been bringing the city’s community together over sports for decades.
9. Fun!
In addition to practices and games, we also host pizza parties and annual opening and closing ceremonies attended by both families and the community at large. Kids love that good balance of fun and athletics.