Coaching Baseball Successfully

By Andy Lopez

Book Overview

Coach Andy Lopez knows what it takes to build a winning baseball program. He has been successful everywhere he's coached, including at Pepperdine University where his team won the 1992 NCAA national championship.In >Coaching Baseball Successfully>, Lopez shows you how to build your own championship team through anecdotes and instruction. Lopez addresses how to succeed in every situation on the diamond, in the dugout, and in communicating away from the ballpark.He includes nuts-and-bolts information about:- bunting,- baserunning,- hitting,- offensive strategies,- defensive techniques at each position,- defensive strategies, and- pitching.Plus, he gives you 36 drills that will help your team develop its skills. Lopez also provides information that transcends the skills and strategies of baseball. As you read about Lopez's own work ethic, commitment to excellence, and strong personal convictions, you'll learn how to:- develop a baseball coaching philosophy,- communicate effectively both on and off the field,- motivate players, and- create a program atmosphere where individuals can grow as people and thrive as athletes.>Coaching Baseball Successfully> shows you how to develop your coaching plans throughout the year, too. You'll learn how to put together a conditioning plan that will prepare your team for games, and you'll find information on developing an effective master practice plan for the season. Included in the book is a detailed three-week sample practice plan for getting your season started.And to make the book complete, Lopez helps you understand how to coach in game situations and how to do coaching evaluation. You get an in-depth look at using scouting reports, managing personnel, motivating players on game day, and applying specific game strategies. Then, as an important follow-up, Lopez explains how to evaluate your players and program in preseason, after games, and in postseason.>Coaching Baseball Successfully> is part of the Coaching Successfully Series, a resource in the American Sport Education Program's SportCoach curriculum.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873226097
• ISBN13: 9780873226097
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Get it and learn how to manage "a coach's life"

Coaching is like creating its own jigsaw : a lot of books will only show you how to shape a certain kind of pieces. This book will help you to define the entire picture and then refine it in many different pieces. It will provide you with datas that should be applied and confronted in real life, not only read and understood. Other coaching books usually give skills and drills. This fields are fast-covered here. Even if Andy Lopez has chosen to emphasize the development of a good pitching staff, his chapter gives insufficient direction, poor skills advices, no tools to evaluate pitchers progression... I don't recommend this book to players who are searching for new drills and new techniques. I recommend it to young coaches who doesn't know where they should be headed, and where they should bring their players.

This book is an excellent guide to teaching baseball.

The approach that Coach Lopez has to baseball is unique and could benefit experienced or young coaches at any level. I recommend this book to all players and coaches who love to learn and teach baseball.

This book covers fully the building of a baseball program

Lopez, an extremely successful highschool and college coach, touches all the bases on how to build a successful upper calibre baseball program. Though basic enough for the laymen coach to benifit from, Lopez shares with the reader his personal insight on how he created a winning program at both the high school and college levels.

This A great book about more than just coaching baseball.

Lopez does an excellent job of explaining the complexities involved with coaching high-level baseball, that alone makes his book a success. What makes this book stand out is that he goes beyond coaching baseball, to coaching life. He talks about attitudes and ideas that will carry over from the field to the "real world" and that is what many high level coaching books leave out. The baseball instruction in this book is second to none. A must have for any serious coach.

Lopez covers more than most coaching books

Andy Lopez has written a book which not only covers drills and strategies, but discusses coaching philosophies, evaluating players, working with school administrators, fund-raising, game and practice preparation, and player motivation, among others, and he does it very well. In covering more than just on-field aspects he goes beyond all other coaching manuals I have read. He presents his ideas in an advanced way that makes them useful for high school and college coaches alike. As a high school baseball coach I've found Lopez's ideas to work very well when put into practice and I highly recommend this book to any prospective high school or college baseball coach