Another perspective on playing too many games

The games and tournaments start to run together after a while. In 2003, my son played for a number of teams including travel (about 90 games) and rec ball/AS tourneys/summer league (about 40 games) for a total of about 130 games. Looking back, this was ridiculous if not unhealthy but it was our first time doing it and I was going with the flow. The side effect is that many of those games were meaningless to him. I belatedly saw that it was becoming a "job" for him and I cut it back next year and thereafter. Still and altho he kept playing every year, periodically he would show a desire to do something else. We put him in basketball during the winter which he always liked. He finally got the fire back after he went out for HS basketball and played that sport for about 8 months (which was like every day, every week). When HS baseball started, he was telling me how much he missed playing the game. I almost made a very big mistake but as we were going through it, it seemed like it was something we had to do to keep up with the talent level.