Endorsed by Little League Baseball[registered] and a favorite among coaches and parents, "Little League[registered] Drills and Strategies" is built around three easy-to-follow rules such as: teach the basics; keep it fun; and; practice, practice, practice. Following these simple yet successful tenets, authors Ned McIntosh and Rich Cropper have revised this classic bestseller with even more imaginative drills that you can use to help your players strengthen their baseball skills. These innovative...
Take your game from bush league to big time with these proven techniquesBaseball scouts and coaches at every level want players with the knowledge and ability to do it all. They're looking for someone who can dominate a game and showcase talent in each of baseball's five essential skills: hitting for average, hitting for power, fielding, arm strength, and speed. What they hope to find is The Five-Tool Player.In The Five-Tool Player, you'll get all the drills, step-by-step photos, and guidance yo...
A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued when Americans began playing there professionally. In Japan, baseball is a way of life. It is a philosophy. It is besuboru. Its most important element is wa—group harmony—embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down." In this witty and incisive book, Robert Whiting gives us a close-up look at besuboru's teams, obsessive ritualism, and history, as seen through the e...
Lessons in baseball enlightenment from three-time MLB manager of the year Joe Maddon.No one sees baseball like Joe Maddon. He sees it through his trademark glasses and irrepressible wit. Raised in the "shot-and-beer" town of Hazleton, Pa., and forged by 15 years in the minors, Maddon over 19 seasons in Tampa Bay, Chicago and Anaheim has become one of the most successful, most colorful, and most quoted managers in Major League Baseball. He is a workplace culture expert, having engineered two of t...
Making Little League Baseball(r) More Fun for Kids: 30 Games and Drills Guaranteed to Improve Skills and Attitudes
by Randy Voorhees
7 Years Old And Awesome At Baseball
by Kids Journal Baseball Publishing
Aimed at baseball coaches of all levels. This is a practical, user-friendly resource that will help coaches to improve all aspects of the game. Covers the key areas of coaching baseball, including season planning, practice planning, pre and post-game considerations. Teaching points provide detailed definitions of tactical skills, as well as how to detect and correct technical errors. Coaches will learn the value of teaching both technical and tactical skills, as well as the difference between th...
Arm Action, Arm Path, and the Perfect Pitch
by Tom House, Doug Thornburg, and Doug Thorburn
The Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Baseball Drills (Baffled Parent's Guides)
by Jim Garland
"An in-depth tool for instructing youngsters to improve their fundamental skills in the great game of baseball." - Bill Hunter, manager, Texas Rangers, former shortstop, New York Yankees. "A must-read for inexperienced and experienced coaches. As a former professional player, my toughest job when I started coaching Little League was transferring my knowledge to the kids so they could develop their skills and a love for the game. This book allows coaches to do just that." - Gene Hiser, Chicago Cu...
In 1987 noted poet and author Gary Gildner went to Poland on a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Warsaw. One January day, a Warsaw sportswriter came knocking on Gildner's classroom door with a problem and a request. The professional baseball team he had organized the year before could not win; would the professor-who he had heard was a baseball player-come help? Told with gripping lyric simplicity, The Warsaw Sparks is about an American's experience coaching a baseball team in...
