When is the right age for children to play sports?

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Myoldest son goes a mile a minute. He has the most insane amount of energy and hedoesn’t stop unless he is asleep {NO exaggeration}. There is no down time,there is no resting and relaxing, he is a go getter who never slows down.
 
Thiscan make following directions a challenge. It is not that he doesn’t listen… heis a very good listener when I can get him to focus. It is the slowing down tofocus part that can be a challenge. I knowhe hears me. There is NO WAY that he has learned to tune me out this early inhis life! 
Ihave taken multiple classes through the park district with my firstborn sincehe was a baby. We took tumbling classes, music classes, art classes,pre-pre-school classes, and now we have taken a karate class. As a side note - Iam not sure how wise enrolling him in karate was. He tends to kick and hiteverything around the house now while he yells “Hiyah!”

Igive him kudos for performing the moves correctly. He obviously paid attentionin class when the instructors were teaching the routine. He has thepunch-punch-hammer down pat. But once the routine is over he starts runningcircles around everyone… literally. He gets up and does laps around the kids inhis class. This is obviously something that we are going to have to work on.
Ido understand that I am raising boys and that boys typically have a lot of energyand are often quite rambunctious. I do not think that there is anything wrong with my child. He is a typical 3year-old boy. My concern is the age appropriateness of enrolling him in sportsand/or activities that require a lot of directions. Is it worth it at thisearly stage of his life or is it just glorified babysitting?

Iwant to enroll my son in t-ball and soccer this year and am now questioningthis decision. I feel that he benefits from taking these classes from theexposure alone. Even if he does not remember everything he learns in theseclasses he is being exposed to how a class works and what is expected of him. Heis socializing with peers and getting to burn off some of his endless supply ofenergy. I keep going back and forth on this decision. More likely than not, myson will be participating in one sport or another this year. I guess we willsee how it goes.
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