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Baseball's Best Drills, Tips & Strategies
Easy to Follow Drills for All Skill Levels
- 191 Pages
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- This guide was written with one idea in mind: to provide baseball coaches, players, and parents with the information they need to be more effective on the baseball field.
$22.95
Stock# BKE01
You will be able to download this eBook in PDF format immediately after checking out.
Baseball's Best Drills, Tips & Strategies is an in-depth electronic guide (eBook) that covers most aspects of the game. Perfect for youth coaches and dads, the multitude of drills are short and sweet and described in just the right amount of detail.
The secret to success is hard work on the practice field, and even harder work on the game field. This guide provides the ingredients for your effort; ingredients that will turn your hard work and effort on the practice field into a prize winning accomplishment on the game field. You can succeed, if you know how to prepare and refine your players' skills in a fun manner.
How to read this Electronic Guide
The book is available in electronic format only. That means no more lugging around a book, fumbling for the right drill, or making hand-written copies to take to practice.
You will be able to download Baseball's Best Drills, Tips & Strategies in the Portable Document Format (PDF) immediately after buying it. With a PDF, most people browse through the eBook, find the information they're looking for, and then print out those pages. And most importantly, that information is easy to find as every topic and drill can be found using the eBook's bookmarks!
Electronic guides require the use of Adobe's Acrobat Reader software to open the PDF. Acrobat Reader is already installed on most computers. It's also available for free from Adobe and easy to install (click here to get the Adobe Reader).
Book breakdown: 191 pages and 5 sections
Using this guide is just like browsing the web, only faster and with no clutter since you download the book to your computer. Simply browse through the drills, tips and strategies on your computer screen, find the page that will work for your players (one item per page), click the print button to send it to your printer, clip it to your clipboard, and go! You'll even have plenty of space to take notes at the bottom of the page during practice. It couldn't be any easier!
Section 1: Coaching
Pages 9-36
- Liability protection
- What to teach
- Communication with players, parents, officials & opposing coaches
- Planning the season
- First meeting
- Practice
- Preparing for the game
- During the season
- End of season
- Nine effective ways to communicate with the batter
- Seven ways to impress the top coaches at your tryout
- Nine ways to ensure your players stay healthy
- How to effectively prepare your relief pitchers
- What constitutes a balk?
Section 2: Defense
Pages 37-96
- 28 different drills!
- Throwing
- Loosen it up
- Basic throwing drill
- Catching thrown balls & fly balls
- Fielding ground balls
- Fundamental ground balls
- Fungo ball
- Improving the first baseman's stretch
- Infield strategies
- Positioning
- Backups
- Protecting the scoring position
- The two catcher stances
- Give me a sign
- Move closer catcher
- How to block the pitch in the dirt
- Locate the wild pitch
Section 3: Hitting
Pages 97-132
- Hitting fundamentals and strategies
- Tips for hitting for contact and for power
- Bat selection
- Make the COUNT count
- The inside belongs to me
- Backside barrier
- Step in
- Strong hands
- Short throw batting practice
- Full count game
- Push from the tee
- Quick hips
- Don't hit the chair
- Hit the stick quick
- Smash boxes
- Pitch tracking
- Wall ball
- Two ball soft toss
- Soft toss from behind
- Pressure hitting drill
- Golf balls and broomsticks
- Inside-out stroke drill
- Quick hit drill
- One knee hitting drill
- Team hit and run drill
- Wiffle balls and tee
- Directional hitting drill
- Multiple location contact
- Bunt like you mean it
- Bunting game
- Bunt pepper
- Basic bunting drill
- Four station bunting drill
Section 4: Pitching
Pages 133-162
- Pitching styles
- The six skills every pitcher should master
- The six focus points for younger pitchers
- Twenty before four
- Bring the foot up & out
- Don't hit the batter
- Balance drill
- Japanese
- Long toss
- Hit the dots
- Wrist roller
- Take care of that arm
- Are you a good pitcher?
- Five time-tested pitching strategies
- Four goals every pitcher should strive for with every batter
- The three most important elements of every pitch
- The three basic pitches and how to throw them
- Pitch through the zone
- Pitch with control
- Pitcher's five point drill
- Slap the rag drill
- Sit and hit the mitt drill
- Goalpost pitching drill
- Pitchers three-ball warm up drill
- Covering first base
- Pick-off practice
- Mastering a right-handed pick-off
Section 5: Baserunning
Pages 163-190
- Basic skills for baserunning
- Basic strategies for baserunners
- Strategies for running to first base
- Strategies for running from second base
- Strategies for running from third base
- Run through!
- Round we go!
- Signal!
- Watch!
- Relay!
- Pick-off!
- Break!
- Coyote!
- Aggression!
- Crack!
- Dirt!
- Circuits!
- Get out of the box
- The delayed steal
- Stealing second base
- Stealing third base
- Stealing home
- Run for your life
Testimonials
"I can't see anything that could be improved. Everything you could possibly need and more. Excellent resource for any baseball coach or interested parent."
Earle Lindfors, Williamsburg, VA
"The software that was used to create the e-book provides a phenomenal navigation system that makes getting around inside the book a total pleasure."
David Thomas, Proud Father of a 10-year old baseball player
"Your book is excellent for a beginner coach. I have read many books on coaching and have seen many of your key points in many references, but you've done a nice job of summarizing some key, basic coaching skills."
Leo Quintero
"I have purposefully omitted a lot of the 'fluff' from the prose. What you'll see, written as concisely as practical, are baseball's best drills, tips and strategies."
Todd Williams, the book's author
Baseball's Best Drills Series
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- Baseball's Best Drills, Tips & Strategies
- Winning Strategies for Offense and Defense
Price: $41.95
Stock# CB25
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Effective game strategies can make the difference between winning and losing. They will also make your kids even better ballplayers. This guide will help you teach your kids what to do in specific situations and with a little practice, making good decisions will become automatic.
- Baseball's Best Drills, Tips & Strategies
- Focus on Hitting
Price $41.95
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- Focus on Hitting
- Winning Strategies for Offense and Defense
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About the Author
Todd Williams grew up playing Little League baseball in a small Utah town, which is where his life-long love of the game began. Most recently he has been coaching his son's baseball teams in the suburbs of Houston. Overall, Williams has successfully played, managed, coached, umpired and otherwise been involved with youth baseball for over 30 years.
Williams has compiled his youth coaching experiences into three informative electronic guides, Baseball's Best Drills, Tips & Strategies, Focus on Hitting and Winning Strategies for Offense and Defense. These guides are aimed at coaching mostly younger players and are available exclusively at Baseball Tips.
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