Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

Parents looking for their retirement fund instead of the kids just being kids.

A lot of parents are reson the kids drop sports because of the actions of the parents.

Most of the parents are good.

Swede

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

I think I have met her at one of those games.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

So true, so many times mothers of players do not understand, the rules of baseball. Some associations and fields have move the stands to the outfield. If you do find that baseball mom and baseball grand mom that thinks a bad call took place, they won't stop. I shooting a recreational baseball game, and the umpire went to the coaches, and told them he or the crew would not tolerate any more comment that were being spewed from a lady behind the backstop, he would not start play until she was removed. The mother was moved to an area down the baselines <only a temporary measure, a few plays later, the umpire behind the plate, stopped play again the lady had made her way back behind the backstop, between every play she was shouting comment that could only be intended. The umpire stopped play again and told the lady she had to be removed from the field before play could start again. When her husband, the coach and other teams parents told her she had to move, she became more unruly, "I paid must as much as everyone else to watch the game, I am not leaving", "Its a free country you can't stop me from having my say etc." The player had to be embarrassed. In this instance where four or five teams play each other over a season, it not like this mother was a stranger . Once play has started the umpires totally control what takes place during a baseball games.

Tikva Loc: Waukesha, WI

Love it. I'm a Grandmother but my Grandkids lived quite a distance from me when they were growing up.