"Baseball stuff!" makes no sense

Let's think about this for a moment; here we have this kid that's OBVIOUSLY obsessed with baseball.

He has three adults in his life that know this fact.

They also all know that he has trouble getting kids his own age to play with him.

Put all this together, and.. a FOURTH adult is needed to buy him baseball stuff. What?

I mean, the expression 'third party' is a bit confusing here, but the point is, the kid's OWN PARENTS will not buy him any baseball stuff, despite clearly and full-well knowing he loves baseball.

His 'stepdad' is the only one that ever tries to fulfill this side of him by 'throwing a few' every chance he gets, but even he won't simply give him a glove and his own ball and a hat, or anything.

Looking at the house the kid lives in, considering the mom is dating a 'hospital administrator', and his dad being a lawyer that drives around in a very expensive german car, trying to become partner in a high-profile law firm situated in a high-rise building..

..buying a baseball and a glove would've realistically happened since day one or even before. Often, when parents hear the gender of the kid, they will 'prepare accordingly' (although it IS a bit gender-worshipping and inhuman,
that is, they treat their kid as a gender instead of a human being that lives in a body that has a gender, but that's beyond the scope of this post - I'll just point to the experiment that when they dressed the same, exact baby in blue, people treated the baby more 'roughly' and 'loudly', as opposed to how gently and silently they treated her when she was dressed in pink - not only do people stupidly assign gender even to COLORS, red used to be the masculine color and blue the feminine one, so they even swapped at some point and no one batted (no pun intended) an eye!).

This means that there's a big likelihood that the soon-to-be mom and dad would've prepared for a 'boy', meaning there'd be all kinds of 'masculine toys' laying around before the kid is even born.

But no baseball stuff? What?

The dad is willing to roleplay some famous baseball star, but NOT willing to buy his own kid baseball stuff? Also, the kid is NOT WHINING EVERY SINGLE DAY for baseball stuff? This is just a bit unrealistic.

That the secretary not only bought the kid baseball stuff (just how much does the secretary snoop on people's private lives to know the kid is obsessed with baseball?), but didn't tell this plan to Fletcher, is also really weird, but what's more weird, is that Fletcher couldn't even guess THAT'S what it would be, and what's even MORE weird, is..

..that the SECRETARY had to be the one to finally buy this baseball-obsessed kid his own baseball and a glove.

Just how much sense does this make? Fletcher won't buy his kid baseball stuff. The kid's mom that spends a LOT of time with him, will absolutely refuse to buy him anything baseball-related. Then the baseball-loving stepdad that always wants to 'throw a few', refuses to let go of his own baseball or to buy this kid he always plays baseball-related games with, his own baseball, bat, glove, or anything.

HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE? The three closest adults ABSOLUTELY refuse to buy this kid anything 'baseball-related', but a secretary, that has basically nothing to do with the kid except a few casual chats the rare times the dad brings the kid into the office, just casually gets what the kid has been fantasizing all these years, and lets the dad take credit.

Why wouldn't the dad just buy this stuff for his kid in the first place? HE KNOWS THE KID LOVES BASEBALL, for crying out loud!

It can't be any kind of ideological or 'parenting' kind of reason, because he has no objections when the secretary gets the stuff for him in his name. So what gives? How about the mom? Even the stepdad?

I can't make any sense out of it no matter how I try to look at it objectively, it purely just doesn't make sense.

The 'baseball stuff!'-scene is written PURELY because the movie's story needs it, but other than that, I can't see how or why this could ever happen.

It DEFINITELY can't be a money problem, considering they can have a fancy birthday party and order a performer, too! (Please also note the expensive video camera - at least at the time)

This whole baseball stuff-scene just makes absolutely no sense. Its only purpose is to show how absent-minded about his kid and his kids needs, wants, fantasies, interests, etc. the father is, but it doesn't explain why the mom or the stepdad won't get the kid this stuff.

All this stuff should've been the norm in the kid's material possessions ever since they parents realized he loves baseball - he should have multiple baseballs, bats, hats, gloves, oil, trading cards, VHS tapes, posters, flags and whatnot, but nope.

Fancy birthday party with a performer, yes.

But no baseball stuff for you unless your dad's SECRETARY happens to buy some for ya!!

Makes no sense.