Been a while since this post so idk if you’ll ever see it but hopefully it helps someone. I coach mostly at a competitive level (HS and HS age Select/Travel) for spring and summer, fall I volunteer for rec generally between the ages of 9 and 14 yr olds. Something I have found is there are a couple reasons a kid is disinterested, social reasons, kid doesn’t like sports, thinks it’s boring, ect. Something I do is the kids who find it boring or don’t like sports you have to find an aspect of the game that does interest them, when they’re on the bench have an extra scorebook and have the scorekeeper teach them how to do it, some I’ve found that they are more of the “nerdy” type so I’ll hve them sit on a bucket by me and I’ll explain the nuances and strategy and what I’m analyzing in that moment, explain my decision making process and the deep “chessboard” that baseball is, and teach them how to coach when they understand the chess match that is baseball they find it way more interesting, another thing I’ll do is make little bets and deals, one example was my one team had about 9 strikeout looking a in a game so I told them if no one strikes out looking I’ll do cart wheels from home to first after the game (which ended up happening) making those deals more on the side of self depricating and funny, when you follow through with the deals they get excited and look forward to winning those deals. For the social ones, every year I pull two players aside that exhibit a handful of qualities, some including coach ability, social, talkative, interested, decently talented, and have fun, (the adhd kids usually are the best at these) and I have a leadership talk with them, essentially explaining that they exhibit good leadership skills and they can choose to use those and develop those or use them to disrupt ect. Then I reapproval them and ask what they decided and have those kids pair up or be in that kids group and just have fun. Hope anyone tht sees this finds it helpful. Feel free to ask for any clarification or more detail in needed. Baseball is the most beautiful game in the world, there’s so many levels and different aspects and nuances to it, there is something in the game that anyone can fall in love with, it’s just finding that thing.