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When I was 12 in 2005, there were 176 little league programs in the state. Today, there are 89. I'm assuming some combination of kids not being interested in baseball anymore, stuck on their phone all day, and travel baseball have killed little league. I looked up the district tournaments today and realized that Plainville doesn't even field an all-star team anymore. Plainville is a baseball town through and through. That is wild to me.
A lot of towns are regionalizing teams from what I've seen. Instead of 1 team per town, where I grew up now has my town (the bigger one) that absorbed 2 smaller ones.