How many is too many?

Well the summer is winding down but the weather is just now heating up. As a person who loves the summer and the heat I've been finding every reason in the world to not be indoors or by the computer. We are in the midst of our first "heat wave" of the summer. For the past couple months I have been helping out as a coach with the WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP 15U Sophomore American Legion team (2009 New Jersey State Champions). It was nice to be back on the field as a coach for the first time since last year. Even though I still prefer playing and instructing to coaching, I had a great time with the kids on this team. I watched them play hard and aggressive through a long season of baseball. By the time I got to most of the players on this team they had already played between 30-50 games through HS baseball, Travel Ball, Town Ball, Tournament ball, Babe Ruth Districts, some Babe Ruth States ...etc. We had kids from a handful of different teams between the ages of 13-15 years old. I am very proud of what the boys accomplished, but I can't say that I don't have some conflicting feelings about the amount of games these boys are playing. As a team, our record was somewhere near 26-5, or something of that nature. That is 30 more games on top of the almost 50 games some of these kids had already played. This is a great credit to these kids work ethic and I can't leave out that they all participate in some sort of winter baseball workouts. Some play fall baseball, most of them play other sports, and they all do individual practice on their own. I guess my question to you is this: Is this too much playing? In my opinion it is. I think at this age (13-15) More time should be taken practicing on the field than playing in actual games on the field. There are still way too many fundamental flaws being made by players at this age. They keep repeating their bad habits game after game with no correct repetitions taken between games. Well that is just my opinion. Anyway, congratulations to the players who stuck out a long season and came out on top. The off season is always nicer when you know you won the last game played in your league.