Take the money that you are thinking of investing in travel ball and start a college tuition fund. You add up the travel expense motel stays, eating out, team fees and by the time he graduates you will have saved enough to at least pay for 2 years at a community college. What I would seriously look at is once he gets high school age is getting him into a school with a coach that competes at highly competitive level. Take the travel ball money now and get him hitting and fielding lessons with a private coach that has played and actually knows the game.