Copy editor, Des Moines Register

Summer high school baseball..they do the same thing in some places here in Wisconsin. For smaller schools where there aren't enough kids to fill a track and baseball team, they play HS baseball in the summer. Kids can even play (gasp!) after they graduate, but can't play before their freshman year. Some schools have boys soccer as a spring sport as well, which also hurts the numbers.

This entire problem is averted in some states where soccer is a fall sport. In Wisconsin, it's mostly only the reeeealy small schools that have baseball as a summer sport.