U.S. families spend an estimated $30-40 billion annually on their children's athletic endeavors, with the most significant factors driving that cost being inflation and travel sports.
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — For years, parents watched as rising costs in youth sports pushed more and more kids to the sidelines and other endeavors.
That comes as more children appear to be returning to community-based sports, increasing to 58% in 2022 compared to 38% in 2021. "Youth athletics have become an industry," he explained. It's been about the adults and not the kids, and when it's about the adults, the adults see an opportunity to profit, so they're trying to make profit margins."
The nonprofit Mentor Baseball League is not the same one Jeff Elly's father founded nearly 40 years ago. Nowadays, Elly said the league must compete against the rise of non-stop leagues that develop the best players and ask kids to specialize in a single sport. While News 5 focuses its reporting through the lens of the baseball diamond, baseball is not the most expensive sport for kids.
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