Knack Coaching Youth Baseball Tips on Building a Winning Team

by Czerwinski, Kevin; Balbierz, Beth

• ISBN13: 9781599218632
• ISBN10: 1599218631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-04
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

Baseball is a simple enough game. Yet, mastering the skills requisite to play the game at a competitive level, regardless of one's age, often isn't easy.Knack Coaching Youth Baseballapplies the unique Knack formatshort passages of text linked to instructive photography of both boys and girls playing the sport, all organized into spread-based lessonsto present basic and advanced information about coaching this popular youth sport for kids aged five to fourteen. The author, a sportswriter who coaches his son's little league team, focuses on techniques that will help any team win while reminding coaches that children should have fun above all else.

Author Biography

Kevin T. Czerwinski is a sportswriter who has covered baseball for MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, since 2001. Currently he is a lead writer for MLB.com’s Minor League counterpart, MiLB.com. He is also a regular guest on MLB radio. He has coached son's Little League team for the last three years.   Beth Balbierz is a freelance pho­tographer with two school-age kids and she coaches her son’s Little League and All Star teams. She is the photographer for Knack Coaching Youth Soccer.  Visit her at bethbalbierz.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Getting Started

Equipment

Rules and basic knowledge

Preparing to Play

T-Ball

Hitting

Bunting

Catching Basics

Catching for older players

General Fielding

First base

Second Base

Third Base

Shortstop

Infield for older players

Outfield

Pitching

Pitching for older players

Base running

Other resources

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