A Lost Art?

 This past summer I attended a high-school aged baseball tournament consisting of 9 teams and I watched 5 complete games. Because of the time limit constraints, most games only went 6 innings.  I began to notice a trend early on and decided to make note of the trend.  After roughly 400 at bats viewed, not one player had attempted a bunt.  Is this skill even taught anymore?  As a kid I loved players like Brett Butler (190 career bunt singles) and Rod Carew (70% successful bunt rate).  These guy were great hitters and perfected the bunt to better their own games.  It forced defenses to play in uncomfortable positions and they had to cover foul line to foul line.  Do kids today realize the great Mickey Mantle posted a career .541 batting average when bunting with nobody on base? Now that I think about it, they probably don't know who the mick was.  Even the smaller players in this tournament refused to bunt. I watched routine fly ball after infield pop up over and over. I watched bottom of the order kids, with runners on first and second and nobody out, hit into double plays.  I do remember the commercial with Tom Glavine and Greg  Maddux boasting "Chicks dig the long ball."  Well let me tell you, fat old baseball guys, sitting in lawn chairs behind home plate, dig the bunt.  It's good baseball!