Hit and Run Baseball [Paperback]

Rod Delmonico (Author), Ron Fraser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1992

Hit and Run Baseball details the skills and drills needed to improve a team's offense. It will help teams manufacture runs without the benefit of big hits. Coach Rod Delmonico - head baseball coach at the University of Tennessee - shows how to make things happen while at bat or on base. He discusses the basic skills and the advanced insights needed to develop an aggressive baseball offence. As a seasoned presenter at baseball clinics nation-wide, Delmonico gives a coaching clinic in the book form. Hit and Run Baseball is heavily illustrated with over 200 sequenced pictures showing positioning, footwork, and technique for hitting, bunting, running the bases, and sliding. The book includes valuable coaching points for detecting opponents' weaknesses that can help teams take extra bases. Plus every chapter concludes with mental tips for players and skill-specific drills - 25 in all.

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About the Author

Rod Delmonico is the head baseball coach at the University of Tennessee and one of college baseball's brightest young coaches. In his second year at Tennessee, Delmonico set a school record with a 41-19 record. He also spent 6 years as the head assistant coach with Florida State University, where he helped coach the team to three college world series.

Delmonico, who received his master's degree in education from Clemson University in 1983, is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association. Delmonico has written extensively for Scholastic Coach since 1980 and, in a 10-year period, has published over 40 articles in numerous other magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880113278
• ISBN-13: 978-0880113274
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,641,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why sit back and wait when you can make things happen, June 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hit and Run Baseball (Paperback)

This book is a great guide to an aggressive style offense. As a player I like to take the game to the opponent and make them work. Coach Delmonico shows the essentials to an aggressive offense. I plan on incorporating some of the ideas in this book into my own coaching style. Sitting back and waiting for the big inning can win some games, but aggressive offense can win more games. I recommend it highly to all coaches.

5.0 out of 5 stars Top of required reading list for developing baseball strategy, June 13, 2008

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Rusty Wilddog "sounder" (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hit and Run Baseball (Paperback)

With hundreds of new books monthly claiming to reinvent the bio-mechanical wheel, "Hit and Run Baseball" is still the model of intelligent and insightful thinking on developing a sophisticated approach to the game. His approach continues to work.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, July 30, 2001

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James Doughty "nightguy" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hit and Run Baseball (Paperback)

I haven't done many of the suggested drills, but simply as bedside reading this book does a fantastic job breaking down critical elements of the game. I've used many tips I learned from it, especially in baserunning, with success. In baseball you can think too little, and you can think too much; this book finds the right level.