ABSTRACT
This chapter explores considerable emphasis which falls on adolescents' sports roles, such as, roles filled by children becoming adults who like Della Donne are experiencing their own sometimes formidable confusions and ambivalences as well as the pressures and supports of such agents of socialization as community, families, peers, coaches, and elite programs. It focuses on present-day adolescents’ sports and the factors influencing them. In the beginning teens' organized sports were a modest venture primarily involving baseball with activities occurring outside of school. The development of football in secondary schools roughly coincided with baseball. Many times in the course of youthful games, it is possible to spot the elite athletic prospects. In many residential areas, organized sports prove beneficial for local youths. A pair of studies focusing on families provide further information about the change over time in social class for modern NBA players.
