Hardball Academy, Pearland

If your child one day wants to be a professional baseball player, it never hurts to learn from those who have been there. Luckily for your youngster, Hardball Academy has a few former pros on staff, including ex-Rangers farmhand Richie Beard and ex-Reds minor leaguer Jim Bolt. Beard, Bolt, and the rest of the crew work to develop fundamentals in budding baseballers—and softballers too—through camps, clinics, seminars, and lessons; they can even evaluate a player's mechanics and find and correct flaws with the aid of their own 3-D kinetic video machine.