About the Book
"How to Coach Youth Baseball" is the perfect guide for parents and coaches of youth baseball teams. Whether you are new to the coaching game or looking for ways to improve your techniques, Beverly Breton Carroll and the father-son combination of Fran and Kevin O'Brien offer everything you'll need to keep growing - and keep your players enthusiastic and excited. Here is everything you need to get started - and keep going"
- Practice basics
- Designing your practice
- Throwing and catching
- Hitting
- Baserunning
- Fielding
- Pitching
- Improving as a coach
- And much, much more
This detailed guide provides everything a first-time coach needs to teach basic baseball skills--and have fun at the same time. Emphasizing fundamentals and not win-at-all-costs strategies, How to Coach Youth Baseball" "is the perfect book for any new coach.
Beverly Carroll, along with longtime coaches Fran and Kevin O' Brien, offers carefully outlined instructions to help coaches with everything from the basics to developing players who are on the same team but at greatly varying levels of play. Chapters include:
* Coaching Youth Baseball * Power of Positive Thinking * Practice Basics * Designing Your Practice * Learning the Basics: Fielding, Hitting, Bunting, Running, Pitching, Throwing, and Catching * Improve as a coach * Rules of Baseball