Customer Reviews

The Softball Coaching Bible (The Coaching Bible Series)

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Pros:
- Variety of topics covered including fund raising, recruiting, mental, and play aspects
- Advice from several sources
- A handful of good tables and info-graphics

Cons:
- In many cases, about 1/2 of each chapter consists of the given "expert" telling you why they are "great." I realize they are probably trying just trying to establish their value as an expert on the subject, but it's very annoying.
- Rather than properly developing ideas a coach can use for his or her own team, there are brief overviews of some ideas and other ideas are often repeated only with different wording in later chapters.
- I found the chapter on pitching especially horrible.

This book is called "The Softball Coaching Bible", and indeed, in the sense that The Bible is a collection of stories being retold with a greater purpose, this book holds true. However, if your intent for this book is as a manual, then I recommend you pass on it and check out some of the other books out there.

The Softball Coaching Bible is a book that anyone who has coached or plans to coach softball should consider reading. It can be read and enjoyed at one's own pace because it is broken into essays/articles written by collegiate coaches and other experts on various topics. So you can read what you want to read and skip over anything you may not find as useful.
I got a lot of good ideas that I am going to be implementing into my coaching and my program in the upcoming season. And there's some other stuff that I will likely refer back to as I go along in my career.
If you're looking to build your softball coaching "took kit" then this is an excellent resource to add.

The book looks like it was manufactured at an angle...hard to read because it's slanted and some print missing. But great material.

Not real helpful. If you have never watched a game of baseball or softball this might be helpful. Didn't finish it as I had to go coach. Maybe a winter read when there is nothing else to do.

Softball Coaching Bible along with softball skills and drills are two books that no coach should be without.

This book is a must for those coaches whom are just starting their coaching journey. You receive priceless advice from todays all time greats of the game. This is the WHOS WHO of todays softball coaching world.