How to Coach Youth Baseball: A Step-By-Step Approach

By: Kevin O'Brien and Beverly Carroll and Fran O'brien

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Synopsis: 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 Baseballis 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