This detailed guide provides everything a first-time coach needs to teach basic baseball skills--and have fun at the same time. Emphasizing fundamentals and not win-at-all-costs strategies, How to Coach Youth Baseballis the perfect book for any new coach.
Beverly Carroll, along with longtime coaches Fran and Kevin O'Brien, offers carefully outlined instructions to help coaches with everything from the basics to developing players who are on the same team but at greatly varying levels of play. Chapters include:
* Coaching Youth Baseball * Power of Positive Thinking * Practice Basics * Designing Your Practice * Learning the Basics: Fielding, Hitting, Bunting, Running, Pitching, Throwing, and Catching * Improve as a coach! * Rules of Baseball
Autorentext
By Beverly Carroll; Kevin O'Brien and Fran O'brien
Inhalt
Foreword
Introduction
Part I. The Fundamentals
Coaching Youth Baseball
Power of Positive Thinking
Practice Basics
Designing Your Practice
Part II. Essential Skills
Learning the Basics: Throwing and Catching
Learning the Basics: Fielding
Learning the Basics: Hitting
Learning the Basics: Bunting
Learning the Basics: Running
Learning the Basics: Pitching and Catching
Part III. Essential Information
Improve as a coach!
Rules of Baseball
Glossary
Index