Baseball Drills for Young People: Over 150 Games and Activities

by Dirk Baker

Book Overview

Geared toward coaches, this work presents around 150 baseball games and activities for elementary age kids that focus on teaching, improvement of skills and enjoyment. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786412631
• ISBN13: 9780786412631
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Accomplishes Goal

I appreciated the laserlike focus of this book. Most books written for coaches of young players focus, for instance most of excellent books published by Little League, on how to teach particular skills. This is important. But having a fun way to practice those skills, in order to create teaching moments, is equally as important and that's what this book does. Baker does an excellent job of describing a variety of games and activities that a coach can use in planning his (or her) practice, while still stressing possible coaching points. Baker also largely avoids falling into the trap of listing two nearly identical drills in a quest to meet an arbitrary number (150 in this case). For the coach of the young player (ages 10 and under) this is undoubtedly the best drill book on the market.