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The Youth Sports Megacomplex Comes to Town, Hoping Teams will Follow
Study Details
- Authors
- Joe Drape
- Published
- 2018
- Citation
- Drape, Joe. 2018. The youth sports megacomplex comes to town, hoping teams will follow. New York Times (September 12): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/sports/youth-sports-costs.html.
Just past the Hampton Inn and the Chick-fil-A, beyond the climbing wall but not as far as the water park, is your field of dreams. Actually, there are eight of them: all major league-sized, synthetic-turfed and LED-lit, and wedged in next to the three soccer pitches. The Champions Center is ahead on your left, where a dozen basketball courts can be converted into two dozen for volleyball.