After-school baseball isn’t just Little League here. It’s the right Little League team and a private batting tutor; advanced kids do club-level tournament baseball, for which “there aren’t even tryouts,” says Laura Anne. “You have to be asked.” Bela Karolyi, the former coach to Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug, runs a gymnastics camp sixty miles outside of Houston. Some kids start football before they can read. “Stephen went to football camp over the summer,” says Monique Brown, another mother I met, “and those parents were like, ‘We gotta get these kids protein shakes and
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