How to Coach Youth Baseball is the perfect guide for parents and coaches of youth baseball teams. Whether you are new to the coaching game or looking for ways to improve your techniques, Beverly Breton Carroll and the father-son combination of Fran and Kevin O'Brien offer everything you'll need to keep growing - and keep your players enthusiastic and excited.
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How to Coach Youth Baseball is the perfect guide for parents and coaches of youth baseball teams. Whether you are new to the coaching game or looking for ways to improve your techniques, Beverly Breton Carroll and the father-son combination of Fran and Kevin O'Brien offer everything you'll need to keep growing - and keep your players enthusiastic and excited.
Here is everything you need to get started - and keep going"
- Practice basics
- Designing your practice
- Throwing and catching
- Hitting
- Baserunning
- Fielding
- Pitching
- Improving as a coach
- And much, much more
About the Author
Beverly Carroll--a professional writer for twenty-five years--is the author of The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Basketball. She lives in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Kevin O'Brien was an All-New England Baseball Player, a Cape Cod League All Star, and a minor league player in the New York Yankees system. He is currently a professional scout for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Fran O'Brien was a Tufts Athlete of the Year, and served as head coach at MIT and Holy Cross.
Kevin O'Brien was an All-New England Baseball Player, a Cape Cod League All Star, and a minor league player in the New York Yankees system. He is currently a professional scout for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Fran O'Brien was a Tufts Athlete of the Year, and served as head coach at MIT and Holy Cross.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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great for new coaches; maybe even better for experienced coaches,
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This review is from: How to Coach Youth Baseball: A Step-by-Step Approach (Paperback)
There certainly is a need for GOOD how-to youth coaching books, and this is one of them. The book is well written and organized with an easy-to-follow format and lots of photos and diagrams. A new coach can't go wrong in following the user-friendly book to cover all the basics of baseball.
But perhaps more important is the emphasis on YOUTH and dealing with kids, a skill that does not come automatically to everyone involved with youth sports. In other words, the book helps to shape a coach's attitude as much as how to improve skills in young players. Ideally, the coach learns and grows throughout the season as well as the kids. It seems to me that this book is equally valuable to experienced coaches, in helping them to get the most out of all their players, not just the most talented. Many coaches come to youth sports as successful athletes themselves, and sometimes do not recognize what it takes to bring along kids who may be having difficulties. If the point is to keep more players playing, improving, and having a good time, here's a way to strengthen a team as well as individual players. A great investment toward a good season.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Chock-full of useful, easy-to-follow information,
This review is from: How to Coach Youth Baseball: A Step-by-Step Approach (Paperback)
This book is very detailed and organized yet easy to follow. You could have never coached baseball before and be prepared by the time you finish this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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If you want to improve your players and Win -You need this book!,
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Finally, an easy to read book for baseball coaches. This book is jammed packed with great ideas to use with my all my team members.
I'm new to coaching Little League and many of the excellent insider tips helped improve my confidence and coach my players in an easy fun way... And baseball should be fun. If you want to win the league championship or you're hunting for new ideas to improve your players, you need this terrific book!
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