Join the Cardinals Baseball Club
Parents, have you ever considered baseball as a sport for your child?
Children are under extreme pressure in the world of today. Baseball is a good outlet for kids to release pressure, with an emphasis on fun and teamwork. With the introduction of television and computers, children have less time available to be exposed to play which involves gross motor co-ordination. This means we are finding more children being exposed to problems such as low muscle tone and many children need the help of an occupational therapist to assist them academically.
Help build your child’s self-esteem and self-confidence by joining your local baseball team.
Baseball is great in assisting children with gross motor co-ordination and muscle tone and helps to lessen the effects of some of these problems. If young people are outside running around, exercising and practicing baseball, they will be in better shape and live a healthier lifestyle.
The skills in baseball are not easy to learn. Players who can hit, throw, field and run the bases often feel pride with each new skill they add. This helps drive home the concept that if you work hard you can learn new things and accomplish a great deal that you were not able to do before. This lesson translates well beyond the baseball field.
Fun is perhaps the most basic concept of all. Players get out on the field and they hit, run and catch and it’s a very enjoyable activity. Youngsters want to have fun.
Even though baseball is considered primarily an “American” sport, it found its way to South Africa just before the First World War. Baseball started in 1898 on the Goldfields of the Witwatersrand (Gauteng). The Transvaal Baseball Association was formed in 1905 with Wanderers being one of the first clubs.
Cardinals Baseball u-9 season has opened and we are looking for any children between the ages of five and eight years to come try out.
Practices are held every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 5:30 to 6:30pm at the Boksburg Stadium Cardinals Baseball Club.
Address: Boksburg City Stadium, Corner of Jubilee and Dudley Smith roads, Boksburg South.
For any further information contact junior chairman Craig Keylock on 063 407 4158.
We hope to see your little ones on the baseball diamond in future. – @SabeloBoksburg
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