Coaching the Little League Pitcher: Teaching Young Players to Pitch with Skill and Confidence

by Randy Voorhees

Book Overview

The authoritative sourcebooks for parents, players, and coaches Baseball is a complicated game to learn, particularly for a 9- to 12-year-old's attention span. Bewildered managers, coaches, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071408061
• ISBN13: 9780071408066
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

very simple and beneficial book

I was very pleased with this book. I coach little league baseball, and this year am moving up from coach pitch to kid pitch and wanted some help for coaching my new pitchers. I found this book to be easy to understand, and packed with plenty of usefull information. I have been playing baseball for 30 years, and learned a few things that I never knew about pitching in this book. I would strongly recommend this book to other little league coaches and parents.

excellent

Very good book for any coach of young players. Breaks down the steps to teaching a young pitcher so the coach can understand and relay the information to the player.

Very good starter book for those new pitching

I've been coaching little league baseball for about three years. When my son was old enough to move up to the pitching level, I purchased this book so I could teach the basics to those that wanted to pitch. I found the book very good for starting out new picthers.

When you need to know how to teach pitching...

When my son turned 9, and was going into kid-pitch for the first time, he thought he wanted to be a pitcher. What did I know about pitching? Not much. Randy Voorhees...if you read this...thank you. This book let me turn a scrawny kid into not just a pitcher, but a closer. The drills in the book are simple to follow, and backed by intelligent explanations of WHY they work. By breaking the pitching motion down into a series of simple, understandable steps, my son and I worked together to build a delivery that focused on accuracy and control, not brute power and speed. By the middle of his second season in kid pitch, he knew if he got the nod in the 4th inning, that it was his job to hold the lead...and he never failed. By learning to have control and accuracy, my son never worried about his ability...he simply learned to focus on each pitch, one at a time. He learned that with only modest speed and good movement on his pitches, he could beat 85% of the hitters on strikes, 10% on contact ground balls and pop-ups, and 5% of the kids were going to make good contact NO MATTER WHAT...and that's what fielders are for. Why so much about my kid? Well, there's no better testimonial about a book than the great results achieved by following the advice therein. Randy Voorhees...my son and I thank you for two great years in kid pitch, and two "World Series" trophies on my son's wall as proof of your program.