F.C.C, That's when I quit ball. In my day you didn't really play multiple sports. I mean, you could if you really wanted to, but it was frowned upon, and coaches would even get to sabotage kid's minds I get them to play their sport. It was pretty F'd up, tbh, but as a kid, you don't know that. You just know that sports is a super serious big deal, and you needed to pick one and play it 365 days a year.
But I wasn't the basketball type. I was a team player, and all that, could shoot like a mofo, but man, those guys were just mean. I didn't enjoy hanging with them. Preferred the baseball guys who joked all the time, chewed backer, and were generally just way better at wasting time. There's not much time to waste in basketball. It's all go!go!go! Now!!!!
So that's why I chose to play baseball, but I was dumb kid who didn't know much. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't spend much time in HS doing anything I wasn't going to do the rest of my life - instruments and golf are something I wished I picked up at a young age.
And also the "specialize in 1 sport" is dumb as shit. I think that line of thinking no longer exists.