What about the issue of young kids ruining their arms? My brother did. Back then, and this was the mid-to-late 1960's, youth pitchers could (if they could) throw curve balls, and any other pitch they could master. Also, while there were inning counts, especially in tourneys, but they were INNINGS, and not a pitch count. So, some young pitcher might run into a long inning, throw 40+ pitches, and it still count as just ONE of his innings. My brother, and others, did permanent damage to their arms.

Me? I played a lot of 2nd base, even though my hero was Brooks Robinson, so I wanted to play 3rd.