Will and his mad baseball skills

When Will was playing t-ball this summer, one of the parents walked over to Ben and the following conversation ensued:
"Are you Will's dad?"
"Yes."
"How much do you work with him on his hitting?"
(Ben suddenly feels very guilty.) "Well, I haven't really had the chance, see, my wife is really pregnant and I've been working a lot..."
The other dad says, "Really? Well, I played baseball for LSU and Will has a very natural baseball swing."
Ben: "Really?"
Other dad: "Watch this next kid hit the ball. He's going to hit it either flat or down, and he's going to swing way too hard."
(Both Dads watch. That is, in fact, exactly what happens.)
Other Dad: "Now Will is up next. Watch him. He's going to hit it just slightly underneath to give it lift, and he's going to swing it very naturally, without forcing it. "
(And that's pretty much what Will did, and the ball dropped in the outfield between first and second base.)
Other Dad: "See? You should really try and work with him because he could be really good. He could play college ball."

And thus the conversation ended, t-ball season ended, and we didn't really thing much more about it. Then Will asked today if he could go out and hit. We said yes, and Ben went outside to watch him. After about five minutes, Ben came back in for the camera. I went outside to see, and with the t-ball bat and ball, he was killing the ball. After I watched him for a minute, I told Ben to put a "real ball" on the tee. He said that wouldn't work well with the t-ball bat. So he went inside and got the little aluminum Louisville slugger and put the real ball on the tee. Will nailed it again and again.

So I told Ben to toss it to him. Ben was like, no, we don't want to discourage him. But I was like, oh, come on, just let him try.

He hit it. HARD.

So we're thinking that:
1.) How ironic this is considering that baseball is one of the few major sports (along with hockey) that we just don't care about.
2.) Neither one of us has much experience with baseball outside of P.E. class and intramural leagues.
3.) He is living in Louisiana, where the sports hierarchy places a high premium on baseball skill.

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