Coaching Youth Baseball - 4th Edition

By American Sport Education Program

Book Overview

Coaching Youth Baseball, Fourth Edition , stresses fun, safety, and effective instruction, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, encourages a love of the game, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills and drills of baseball. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey these skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Coaching Youth Baseball 's focus on teaching offensive and defensive skills through gamelike drills sets it apart from the current lineup of baseball coaching books. Sporting a reorganized format geared for sequential learning and quick reference, the fourth edition features a line-up of 11 new drills and 40 age-specific coaching tips that are sure to jump-start your planning and practices. The expertise of Coach Tom O'Connell and essential coaching skills--communicating with parents and officials, motivating players, and preparing for games and practices--make this book a must-read as you prepare to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of coaching young athletes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736065261
• ISBN13: 9780736065269
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

More On Non-Technical Ideas

This book does cover more of the non-technical aspects of being a youth coach, but it does a good job at covering those. Many of these items are not covered in other books, so it is very helpful. Perhaps not as good as a "... for Dummies" guide might be, which are much better than their titles indicate, but it comes close. Certainly worth checking out.