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Price: $19.95
Paperback | 232 pages
ISBN: 978-0-974692005
Summary
This unique book peer-mentors youth baseball coaches by capturing the “word-of-mouth” tips, advice, and ideas of some of America’s extraordinary community coaching hometown heroes - everyday people who are considered by their own youth-league communities to be exceptional coaches for promoting excellence, pride, fun, excitement, and teamwork while teaching kids the mechanical aspects of baseball. With this book, that special knowledge is passed along from one coach to another through organized sections of coaches’ tips and advice, coaches’ favorite drills, and coaches’ most memorable stories of the trials and triumphs of leading groups of young players. This book is a “road map” for the season from 26 coaches who’ve been there! The coaches’ tips & advice section of the book offers proven strategies for organizing a team, holding pre-season parent meetings, conducting fun and effective practices, coaching and motivating players during games, managing parents, working with umpires, and making it all fun. Also included in this section is advice on minimizing sports injuries in players, adapting a coaching style for children, and working successfully with youth baseball umpires. The coaches’ favorite drills section contains 40 time-tested practice routines relayed by the hometown hero coaches. For quick browsing and selection, each drill has been rated to suggest a player age focus, a fun rating and a fundamental skill rating. The coaches’ memorable stories section is a collection of personal stories - some humorous, some touching, some inspirational - shared by the hometown hero coaches. These stories can be read for personal enjoyment or used as inspiring words for players during a practice or a game. Coaches everywhere will benefit from this first-of-a-kind resource that is much more than “just a drills book,” offering the collective personality of the hometown hero coaches through their tips, advice, philosophies, and inspirational stories.
About the Author
David A. Ham
Involved with baseball for over 37 years - first as a youth player, then as a high school and college player, then as a youth coach for his son's teams - David Ham has experienced youth baseball from all angles. His knowledgeable command of the sport and his genuine love of the game help bring to life the comments of the hometown hero coaches interviewed for this book.
Janice B. Sibley
Janice Sibley's 20+ years of professional expertise as a developer and writer of instructional materials, along with her firsthand experience as a baseball parent, join to create a well-structured, personality-rich, and easy-to-use "road map" for coaches everywhere.
