Coaching Pitchers, 2nd Edition

By Joe McFarland

Book Overview

Coaching Pitchers is a complete coach's guide to pitching for youth, junior high, high school, and college baseball. Coaches will especially appreciate the in-depth information on which exercises and combinations of pitches are best suited to bring a pitcher to the fullest potential possible for a given age and stage of development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880113685
• ISBN13: 9780880113687
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Leisure Pr
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 8.8" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

Fundamentaly sound pitching instruction!

Coaching Pitchers is well written, easy to read and understand, and provides a wealth of how to teach your pitchers the proper fundamentals of pitching. This book is well worth the price and needs to be read by EVERY youth coach. The techniques, drills and suggestions are well documented with illustrations and diagrams.If you only buy one book this year, get this one!

Very Helpful

Nicely layed out and a great guide for developing young pitchers from 8 year-olds through high school.

As good a book on pitching as there is

This is as good an introduction to the art of pitching as there is. Simple but not simplistic with excellent illustrations. I recommend it highly.

The most ingenious book ever devised for coaches/pitchers.

Spanky MacFarland has devised an excellent book for secondary level coaches and players. While this book emphasizes techniques and drills directed more toward older players (teenagers or older), it also provides the most mechanically sound, descriptive, and understandable information I have yet to see for this subject. Excellent sketches show proper techniques and motions to eliminate the ambiguity of text-only documentation. I advise any upper-level coach or player to purchase this book.

This is the best instruction for coaches that I've found

This book covers the fundementals in a way that makes them clearly understood. Coaches will not only be able to instruct young pitchers in the proper fundementals, but will be able to easily and quickly recognize good and bad pitching form. It's well worth the money.