How to Coach Youth Baseball

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

Beverly Breton Carroll is author of The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Basketball.BA Dickinson College/The Pennsylvania State University in English Literature/Writing Co-Founder and Owner All-Star Basketball Camp Twenty-five years as professional writer for such publications as The Baltimore Sun, The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, The [Newark, NJ} Star-Ledger, The Writer and clients that include Seton Hall University, The University of Pittsburgh, the City of New York, Harvard University Writing instructor, fourth grade through post-graduate Co-founder, newsletter for parents of young children Kevin O'Brien BA Tufts University in Social Psychology, MA University of Massachusetts in Critical and Creative Thinking Thesis: Coaching for Thinking and Life Skills NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for Academic and Athletic Success All-New England Baseball Player, Cape Cod League All Star Minor League Player with New York Yankees College Coach at Brandeis University and Cape Cod League Currently, professional scout for Toronto Blue Jays Own/operate Sweet Swing Hitting Academy for grades 5-12 Fran O'Brien BA Tufts University in Political Science MA Tufts University in Education Tufts Athlete of the Year Head Coach at MIT and Holy Cross New England Coach of the Year Manager of the Year in Cape Cod League Hall of Fames: Town of Randolph, Stonehill College, Massachusetts High School Baseball

Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Part I. The Fundamentals Coaching Youth Baseball Power of Positive Thinking Practice Basics Designing Your Practice Part II. Essential Skills Learning the Basics: Throwing and Catching Learning the Basics: Fielding Learning the Basics: Hitting Learning the Basics: Bunting Learning the Basics: Running Learning the Basics: Pitching and Catching Part III. Essential Information Improve as a coach! Rules of Baseball Glossary Index