Hit and Run Baseball (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Probably the most difficult skill of all sports is hitting a baseball..." (more)
Key Phrases: push bunt, delayed steal, stealing lead, Tire Drill, Baserunning Drill, Game Variation (more...)

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Product Description

Take advantage of your half of the inning with Hit and Run Baseball. This insightful guide on baseball offense will help your team manufacture runs without the benefit of big hits.

Coach Rod Delmonico--head baseball coach at the University of Tennessee and one of the brightest young college coaches in the game--shows you how to make things happen while at bat or on base. He provides you with the basic skills and the advanced insights you need to develop an aggressive baseball offense. He covers

• hitting,
• bunting,
• getting to first base,
• reading the pitcher for giveaways,
• aggressive running from first to second,
• going from second to third,
• advancing from third to home, and
• sliding.

Hit and Run Baseball provides the skills and drills you need to improve your team's offense.

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; illustrated edition edition (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 (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #961,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for every baseball player, December 21, 1999

By	Peter Wermuth (New York, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Rod Delmonico tells you a lot of things in this book you probably have heared before. But then I'm sure even an experienced coach will find some great new hints. Also, I have never seen so much vital information about how to play the game of baseball put together in one place in such a consice and easy to read way. Rod teaches you basically about bunting and base running. A chapter covering the basics of hitting (again mentioning everything important in just a couple of pages) is included as well. Curiously though the actual hit and run play isn't covered. Only bunt and steal plays, as well as general base running are included. Those are covered expertly though. I will make this book required reading for my players (since it's not too long, you can read it within four hours). I loved the fact that Rod didn't relate any boring stories from his own experience, like many other baseball book authors do, but just put down material you could use directly.

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 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

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

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.