I too am faced with this same decision. Being a first year wrestler, my son has come to love the sport and has accomplished quite a lot this year and wants to get better as much and as quickly as he can. Also, being 7 years old, he is somewhat limited on his choices for baseball in this area, there is a FEW competitive baseball teams that would take on a 7 year old and have them play up in age group, but not many. And the Rec league in the area doesn't start kid pitch until the kids are in 5th grade. Last summer, my older son was on a competitive baseball team and my 7 year old (then he was 6) was practicing with the 10 year olds and the coach wanted him to join the team due to his apparent skill and desire to play. We didn't allow him to play up last year, but did allow him to practice with the team (at the coaches request) whenever possible.

Most of these comments have helped us figure out what we are going to do this summer and since he truly loves both sports and is successful in both, i think we will try to squeeze in summer freestyle/Greco wrestling in with baseball, even if it is just in the recreational league.


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