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9780982870723

A Perfect Season: A Coach's Journey to Learning, Competing, and Having Fun in Youth Baseball

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  • ISBN13:

    9780982870723

  • ISBN10:

    0982870728

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-10-21
  • Publisher: Quiet Path Books
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $18.95

Summary

In this heartwarming baseball story, Dan Clemens reveals the triumphs, failures, frustrations, and joys of being a youth baseball coach. Through 65 personal journal entries, Clemens takes readers on a behind the scenes tour of his 12-year-old son's baseball season. "It was perfect," he says, "but not in terms of wins and losses." Rather, Coach Dan's team achieved their goals of learning, competing and having fun - the three things he emphasizes that should drive youth sports. Clemens's perfect season is chocked full of humor, passion, lessons learned, and wisdom to make youth baseball an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all involved. He offers many insights that will help youth coaches - and their players - enjoy A Perfect Season of their own.A Perfect Season is a must-read for every youth coach . . . and shows parents what they should expect from someone they are intrusting to coach their kids.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. 1
Introduction - Achieving Perfectionp. 7
The Boys of Summer
Not Exactly a Slice of Paradisep. 21
August 18 What Am I Getting Myself Into?p. 35
August 23 Deciding to Coachp. 39
August 25 My Most Rewarding Baseball Momentsp. 41
August 28 Forming a Team ... Getting My Head Straightp. 47
August 30 A Concernp. 59
September 10 TheTryoutp. 61
September 14 Selecting the Team - Who Will Go With Us?p. 66
September 16 Making the Callsp. 72
Spring Training
January 12 Multiple Sports Athletesp. 77
January 16 Fun and Learning at Practicep. 84
February 17 Responding by Focusing on the Positivep. 86
February 25 Mortgaging for Metal and the Joy of Woodp. 88
March 7 The Seeding Tournamentp. 95
March 12 Our Denning Moment-Defeating the Rusdersp. 96
March 15 Keeping Scorep. 100
March 20 Bullpen Catcherp. 104
March 25 The Role of a Coachp. 107
March 26 Reaction at the Scrimmage Tournamentp. 110
March 28 Setting Expectationsp. 113
March 29 React Mode Warning Sign #1-Emotionalp. 116
April
April 2 Reacting to Robert's Bunt Defensep. 121
April 4 React Mode Warning Sign #2 - Selfishp. 123
April 8 Sliding at Second - Part 1p. 125
April 13 Book Review - Randomness and Yelling at Kidsp. 126
April 14 The Busy Dayp. 132
April 20 The Grand Slamp. 141
April 23 Getting Tossedp. 144
April 24 Sliding at Second - Part 2p. 151
April 25 Generation Whyp. 152
April 28 Flashback - Luis Sliding at Thirdp. 154
May
May 1 The Value of Instructionp. 161
May 2 The Psychological Pain of Underperformancep. 165
May 4 The Birth of a Baseball Koanp. 168
May 5 The Unlikely Herop. 171
May 6 Parentsp. 173
May 7 Sliding at Second - Part 3p. 179
May 8 React Mode Warning Sign #3 - Ruttedp. 181
May 10 Be Humblep. 182
May 14 The Making of Tylervillep. 184
May 16 Learn Many Positionsp. 187
May l8 Memory Lane - A Mumford Electric Reunionp. 191
May 21 The Buffaloes Incidentp. 194
May 22 React Mode Warning Sign #4 - Cranial Bypassp. 200
May 24 Sliding at Second - Part 4p. 203
May 25 Passing the Torchp. 207
May 27 Seeing the Fruits of Your Laborp. 213
June
June 1 Confusing Anthonyp. 217
June 4 Mandatoryp. 220
June 6 The Health of a Young Pitcher - Pitch Counts and Curveballsp. 221
June 8 Sliding at Second - Part 5p. 231
June 9 Dillon on Cloud Ninep. 234
June 12 Sliding at Second - Part 6p. 236
June 13 A Mom and Her Picturesp. 238
June 15 My Grandma's Fantastic Memoryp. 245
June 20 Sliding at Second - Part 7p. 248
June 21 A Sad Ending to a Friendshipp. 249
June 23 The Successful Projectp. 253
June 26 A Sad Ending to a Friendship - Part 2p. 261
June 27 The Morning After - Parent Emailp. 266
June 28 Making a Differencep. 269
July
July 8 World Series Umpiresp. 277
July 9 A Sad Ending to a Friendship - What I Learnedp. 285
July 28 Reflecting on a Perfect Seasonp. 289
Epilogue: The Following Julyp. 301
Acknowledgementsp. 305
About Coach Danp. 307
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