Knack Coaching Youth Baseball Tips on Building a Winning Team
by Czerwinski, Kevin; Balbierz, BethFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-04
Publisher(s): Globe Pequot
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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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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