T-ball is important because it introduces kids to baseball by shrewdly dispensing with the need for a pitcher when players are too young to: (1) throw a baseball in the strike zone more than once in 30 attempts, and (2) hit a pitch in the strike zone more than once in 60 attempts. Were it not for T-ball, games would last seven hours, there would be about 100 walks and the kids still wouldn't get out of the first inning (not unlike an average Red Sox-Yankees game).
The one minor drawback to T-ball is that kids are still responsible for the remaining aspects of baseball even though their skills are sometimes limited to standing in right field and peeing their pants.
