Baseball Coaching

A best-selling author and neuroscientist offers five proven steps to help you overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts and replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success.

Discover How-To Teach, What to Teach, and How Athletes Optimally Learn By Doing What the Top 1% of Coaches Do This The Science of Sticky Coaching: How to Turn Ordinary Athletes into Extraordinary book is split up into three sections: 1. KNOWLEDGE - (How-To Teach, Doing Things Right, “Effectiveness”): equipping inexperienced coaches, parents, and organizational leaders on how to effectively run their associations and teams, 2. LEARNING – (How they learn) – the science of successful learning, optimizing how young athletes acquire new skills, and maintaining a rich soil for learning, ...

Coaching youth baseball can be a rewarding, fulfilling, and enjoyable experience for you and the kids. Or it can be a nightmare. This guide is based on one coach's experience, and lessons learned coaching the game. It is an accumulation of ideas - some practical, some philosophical - designed to help you be the best coach you can be. From Coach to Coach, I wish you a successful baseball season!

"Beyond the Bases: Creating a Winning Culture in Youth Baseball and Softball" is an essential guide for coaches, parents, and sports enthusiasts dedicated to fostering a positive and effective team environment. Authored by Joey Myers, a former Division-1 college baseball player and founder of Hitting Performance Lab, this book combines practical strategies, personal insights, and scientific principles to elevate youth baseball and softball coaching. The book is structured into ten comprehensive chapters, each addressing a critical aspect of team culture and player development: Leadership ...

This is a story about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a story by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is the story about what happened to the team when their glory days were behind them.

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis' life, in a baseball game when he was 14 years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do."

Are you a beginner coach looking for drills for your next practice? Or a time-strapped volunteer parent coach? Coaching from the Base Up consults experts, such as Dell Curry, Brian McCormick, Bob Bigelow, and more to share paradigm-shifting ideas, drills, and practice plans.

Baseball Chronicles II: Articles on Youth Coaching is the second edition in the Baseball Chronicles series, and includes twenty-one new articles written over the course of Coach Schupak’s twenty-two years of coaching youth baseball, exploring the most common and pressing issues facing youth coaches & parents today. Featured in these articles are both on-field and off-field topics that are designed to help the youth coach run a successful season, whether it is how to recognize infielders’ five most common mistakes or coaching youth baseball to ability and age.

In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps - a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels - Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight - for good.

Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime. Baseball for Dummies is for baseball fans at all levels, from players and coaches to spectators who love the game. Baseball Hall of Fame player Joe Morgan explains baseball with remarkable insight, using down-to-earth language so everyone from the casual observer to the die-hard fan can gain a fuller appreciation of the sport.

Most of us don't want to spend our lives being time-wasters, space-takers, binge-watchers, or game-players. We want to be difference-makers. But how do we do it? By revealing the way Jesus valued people, best-selling author Kyle Idleman shows us the Jesus way of changing the world - by loving people one at a time.

Only 7% of all baseball players have the opportunity to play at the college level. Bryan Eisenberg was fortunate to stumble upon some incredible baseball mentors that helped him guide his son Sammy along his baseball development and recruiting journey. Play Ball Kid, brings you the roadmap from the perspective of a baseball parent, college coaches, private coaches and a travel ball team owner who has helped 95% of his athletes play at the next level. Bryan is a New York Times bestselling author, optimization expert and baseball dad who always loved the game and when his son Sammy was around...

The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. You don't have one brain - you have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer brain that accesses your memories and runs your habits (good and bad). They fight for control all the time and that's when bad things happen. What if you could stop the thoughts and feelings you don't want? You can.

The visiting clubhouse in San Diego was soggy, sweaty and sticky after the 1998 Yankees swept the Padres in four games and celebrated winning their 24th World Series title. The players raised bottles of Champagne, sprayed the bubbly on each other and reveled in a baseball season that might have been more memorable than any in history. Jack Curry was part of that unforgettable scene as a reporter, navigating around the clubhouse to ask the same, pertinent question.

Transform your coaching abilities and lead your team to success with this comprehensive guide.

When a twelve-year-old girl wants to play baseball with the boys, she’s lucky to have the help of a former Major Leaguer who has the power to change her life forever. Escaping to the empty baseball fields across the street from the military housing in which she lives, Billie is content to throw a ball against the wall, pitching imaginary games with no one around — until she meets Jimmy Parks, the man who maintains the fields. Not only does the long-retired Major Leaguer teach Billie and her new friends how to play baseball the right way, he and the other older coaches also teach the ...

This book is to assist baseball players to get the most out of their high school careers, regardless of location, and to help clarify the process of playing beyond high school. The High School Baseball Hitter's Handbook contains information to improve communication, goal setting, focus, enjoyment, and many other facets players are facing. This book is perfect for parents who have a son or daughter who is entering high school with the goal of playing baseball or for the player who is craving more for their development.

Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives listeners the real, unvarnished, “straight-from-the-gut” truth from Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathia - even Hal Steinbrenner and Randy Levine - and many more. This is baseball’s version of HBO’s award-winning NFL series Hard Knocks. Klapisch and Solotaroff take you deep into the Yankees clubhouse, their dugout, and the front office and pull back the curtain so that every fan can see what really goes on.

Hi, I'm Jerry Baseball, and I coached two seasons of tee-ball, one season with each of my sons. Coaching T-Ball is the template I would use if I coached another season. Coaching T-Ball covers these topics in as few lines as possible. So, sign up to coach, or thank your spouse for signing you up without telling you, spend 30 minutes listening to this audiobook, and prepare to have the time of your life.

When I was an assistant coach, some coaches treated machine pitch as another ho-hum year of t-ball, and other coaches treated machine pitch like the high school sectional championships. When I took over as head coach, I aimed to split the middle and shepherd the players from the lower stakes of t-ball to the higher stakes of Little League. So, I experimented with every aspect of coaching a machine pitch team throughout the season. Even though I was constantly tweaking things, we played better than most opposing teams. If any team looked better than us, I focused on closing the gap.