Clean Your Cleats

Clean Your Cleats
Author: Dan Blewett
Publisher: Dan Blewett
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

What Does it Take to Have a Great Baseball Career? You daydream about one day seeing your face on a baseball card. You live for pressure and the green grass beneath your cleats. But as your career progresses, the game gets harder. You slump and struggle. You get injured and overlooked. Your confidence plummets. Can you keep improving? Are your big dreams still within reach? A Handbook for the Dedicated Player Clean Your Cleats is filled with stories and advice learned the hard way, over a long career on the diamond. Develop better routines and improve your consistency. Handle the ups and downs with confidence and resolve. Strengthen relationships with teammates, parents and coaches. Learn mindset strategies to become the best version of you. Dan Blewett, in this practical guide, helps players understand all the little things in baseball that make a huge difference over a long career. Why clean your cleats? Because every detail matters.

Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball

Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball
Author: Daniel Keller
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492583162

You volunteered to coach the local baseball team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball has the answers. In Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball, longtime coach Dan Keller shares his experiences and provides advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. From evaluating players’ skills and establishing realistic goals to using in-game coaching tips, it’s all here—the drills, the strategies, and most important, the fun! Develop your team’s fielding, catching, throwing, pitching, and hitting skills with the Survival Guide’s collection of the game’s best youth drills that young players can actually use. Best of all, you’ll be able to get the most out of every practice by following the ready-to-use practice plans. Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball has everything you need for a rewarding and productive season.

Coaching Baseball For Dummies

Coaching Baseball For Dummies
Author: The National Alliance For Youth Sports
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-04-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1118068165

If you are a baseball fan, then coaching youth baseball is one the most enjoyable and rewarding activities you’ll experience. But what if you’ve never coached before? Or you haven’t played the game in a while and have forgot some key points to the sport? No worries! Coaching Baseball for Dummies guides you through the rules of the game, explaining all the essential skills and the best ways to teach them to your players. Covering different age groups and great practice routines, this guide is all you need to have a fun-filled season. You’ll discover how to: Fulfill the role of being a coach and parent Develop a coaching philosophy Understand how your league works Evaluate your team Teach your players fundamentals Understand all kinds of children Create your practice plan Prepare for game day Overcome challenges and problems This plain-English guide also shows you how to run all kinds of drills, from hitting and pitching to fielding and base running. And when your team is tense or low on morale, it shows you how to relax your players and keep them focused on the game. There are also suggestions for making your season, and theirs, a memorable one. Coaching Baseball for Dummies shows you how much fun it can be to train kids to be athletes, have good sportsmanship, and work together as a team.

Baseball Skills and Drills

Baseball Skills and Drills
Author: Mark Johnson
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736037389

Top college baseball coaches offer drills for players at all levels. Focuses on hitting, baserunning, fielding, pitching, and catching.

The Baseball Whisperer

The Baseball Whisperer
Author: Michael Tackett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0544386396

“Field of Dreams was only superficially about baseball. It was really about life. So is The Baseball Whisperer . . . with the added advantage of being all true.” —MLB.com From an award-winning journalist, this is the story of a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys would come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers—and men. Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl’s original long-shot projects, a skinny kid from the Los Angeles ghetto who would one day become a beloved Hall-of-Fame shortstop: Ozzie Smith. The Baseball Whisperer traces the “deeply engrossing” story (Booklist, starred review) of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A’s baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players. In the process, he taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility. More than a book about ballplayers in the nation’s agricultural heartland, The Baseball Whisperer is the story of a coach who put character and dedication first, reminding us of the best, purest form of baseball excellence. “Mike Tackett, talented journalist and baseball lover, has hit the sweet spot of the bat with his first book. The Baseball Whisperer takes one coach and one small Iowa town and illuminates both a sport and the human spirit.” —David Maraniss, New York Times-bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered

Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way

Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way
Author: Cal Ripken, Jr.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492582174

Coaching young players, developing their skills, and cultivating a love for the sport may be the most rewarding experience baseball can offer. Cal and Bill Ripken understand this like few others. From their father, Cal Sr., a legend in the Baltimore Orioles organization for 37 years, they learned to play the game the right way. Those lessons, paired with their combined 33 years of big league experience, helped develop the Ripken Way, a method of teaching the game through simple instruction, solid explanations, encouragement, and a positive atmosphere. In Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way, Cal and Bill share this approach to coaching and development. Whether you're teaching your children at home, managing the local travel team, or working with high school-level players, Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way will help you make a difference both on and off the field, with these features: More than 50 drills covering defense, hitting, pitching, and baserunning Age-specific practice plans for players ranging from 4 to 15+ Strategies for setting goals and reasonable expectations for your players and team Advice on communicating with parents, players, and staff Methods for creating a positive and fun environment in which kids can learn the skills and strategies of the game Bill Ripken was once voted by his peers as one of the big league players most likely to become a manager. Cal Ripken, Jr., known as baseball's Iron Man, is a member of the game's All-Century Team and a future Hall of Famer. Together, they are proof positive that the Ripken Way is the right way to teach the game of baseball.

Baseball Strategies

Baseball Strategies
Author: Association American Baseball Coaches
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9781492573302

Coaching Baseball Successfully

Coaching Baseball Successfully
Author: Mike Curran
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736065207

Top high school baseball coach Mike Curran shares his coaching strategies, covering topics such as off-season planning, player evaluation, utilizing the coaching staff, organizing practices, creating effective drills, planning offensive and defensive strategies, scouting, game preparation, and in-game decision making.

Youth Baseball Coaching

Youth Baseball Coaching
Author: John T. Reed
Publisher: John T. Reed Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Baseball for children
ISBN: 9780939224388

In this guide for youth baseball coaches, experienced coach John T. Reed demonstrates how he has achieved extraordinary results by focusing on players' innate skills in areas such as base running, waiting for a good pitch, and fielding.

Travel Baseball Coach

Travel Baseball Coach
Author: HowExpert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987787122

This book was written with every level of travel baseball coach in mind. Whether you are a beginner just starting out, or you are a seasoned veteran who has seen their fair share of baseball there is something for you. In this book, you will find step by step how to build your travel baseball program. You will start out learning how to set yourself in the right state of mind to be the best coach you can possibly be. Next, you will be exposed to several drills designed to make your hitters more complete, and your fielders that much sharper. Your pitchers will be another focal point of this book, as we explore how to build solid fundamental mechanics. By the end of this book, you will effectively be able to communicate how you want your players to execute everything that could possibly happen during a game. You will also learn how to properly build out your off season conditioning, and practice programs. A few of the non baseball related topics you will learn about will be the best practices for handling parents during the season, and some things that will randomly pop up during your team's summer run. Rest assured, after reading this book you truly will be a better travel baseball coach. About The Expert Tom Nelson grew up playing baseball in the suburbs of Chicago. He was raised as a die hard Whitesox fan by his father, and played the game from a very young age. He was primarily a middle infielder, but occasionally would pitch for both his high school and travel team. His baseball scholarships were to the Big 10, until several injuries derailed his career. Once he was hurt, he shifted gears and went to West Virginia University where he studied business and graduated with honors. He currently serves as the head coach for the Naperville Renegades 14U American team, where he continues to serve the game he loves. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on unique topics by everyday experts.