Baseball fans enjoy the game from their aluminum bleacher

By Gerald Dlubala

This spring, when the umpire yells out the familiar, "Play ball!" it will mean opening day for many youth baseball programs with kids on the field and parents filling aluminum bleachers. It will also mean the opening of many new, exciting, all-inclusive sports complexes.

Popping up everywhere, these new mega-complexes are no longer related to the days of the old baseball diamond laid out in a local park or field that just happened to have enough room.

And the term "youth sports" has slickly been transformed into "youth sports tourism", the fastest growing segment in the travel industry.

With sports complexes being built and furnished costing millions of dollars,