Trophies are for winners, a Maryland youth baseball league has decided. “For years, Reisterstown Baseball has given trophies to its youngest players — those aged 4 through 8 —for showing up,” reports Jeff Barker in the Baltimore Sun. “At some point you’ve got to brush your teeth without getting a gold star,” said Ryan Mihalic, a coach with Reisterstown Baseball. Ashley Merryman, author of Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, blames the self-esteem movement of the ’80s