Coaching Made Easy Videos by Pete Caliendo
5 VHS Tapes Sold in Three Different Sets
Coaching Made Easy is the ultimate series of baseball instructional tapes. Loaded with easy-to-duplicate drills, each video offers an excellent program for any youth league volunteer coach or parent to teach players, sons or daughters the fundaments of playing baseball.

Ron Santo: "A must for every coaches and parents library. Coach Caliendo's drills and instruction are among the best I've seen."

BWP Rock Maple Wood Bat  - $59.95
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BWP's maple is known for its extreme hardness, which adds extra punch and increased durability to the bat. Made from hand-selected top grain hardwoods, the level of attention and care that goes into every step of the crafting process simply cannot be matched by mass manufacturers.

Coach JP: Training with wood builds bat speed and strength, and wood trains hitters not to swing at bad pitches. Any player or team that trains with wood will hit the ball harder, with better contact and more power than any player or team that doesn't. Ask any hitting coach.

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Cages Available in 55' & 70'
You will appreciate the ease of which these cages are assembled. In fact, no tools are required. Even the longest pieces are manageable in size. Two practical sizes and two strengths of netting give you all the choices you'll require to best fit your needs and budget.

Coach JP: Gone are those galvanized fence post industrial cages which really detract from your backyard.

Since 1901, MLB teams have held Spring Training in 5 countries, 25 states, and Washington DC. For example, the New York Yankees trained in Athens, Georgia in 1910 and '11. The Boston Braves followed in 1913 and the Cleveland Indians became the final team to train in Athens the year after that. The Boston Red Sox became the last team to train in the state of Georgia, leaving after spending one year in Savannah in 1932. Teams did not travel far during the World War II due to travel restrictions, which explains a spring presence in such odd destinations as Wallingford, Connecticut and Wilmington, Delaware.

Spring Training Sites (Non-War Years)
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC

War Years (1943-45)
Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania

In 1949 the Dodgers moved to "Dodgertown" in Vero Beach, Florida, in what became baseball's first complete spring training complex, with facilities for the club and its farm system.

Prior to that, the Dodgers, then in Brooklyn, had trained outside of the U.S., moving to Vero Beach after training in Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic during 1948. The Dodgers also trained in Cuba, although they weren't the first or last team to do so, while other teams have gotten ready in Mexico and Bermuda.

Spring Training on Foreign Soil
Havana, Cuba
New York Giants (1937) Brooklyn Dodgers (1941, 42, 47) Pittsburgh Pirates (1953)

Mexico City, Mexico
Chicago White Sox (1907) Philadelphia A's (1937)

Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic
Brooklyn Dodgers (1948)

Hamilton, Bermuda
New York Yankees (1913)

Spring Training Facts & Firsts
The last team to completely train outside of Arizona & Florida:
The Chicago Cubs at Long Beach, California in 1966.

The first team to hold Spring Training in Florida:
The Philadelphia A's at Jacksonville in 1903.

Teams that have never trained outside of Florida:
Blue Jays, Devil Rays, Expos, Marlins, Mets
The Royals and Rangers will train outside of the Sunshine State for the first time in 2003, as they share a brand new stadium in Surprise, Arizona.

The first team to hold Spring Training in Arizona:
The Detroit Tigers at Phoenix in 1929.

Teams that have spent their entire existence in Arizona:
Brewers, Diamondbacks, Mariners, Padres, Rockies
The Angels have always trained in Arizona, but split their time between Mesa and Palm Springs, California from 1961-92.

The longest tenure of any team at its current site:
The Detroit Tigers in Lakeland, Florida since 1934, with only a three-year absence during World War II. The have trained there continuously since 1946.

Dugout Wisdom contains the 10 principles of championship teams with invaluable insight and wisdom garnered from interviews with 39 of baseball's top pro and college managers. Each of the ten principles relates to motivation, to getting the most out of each player, every pitch, every moment. This is a book seeking excellence. The Picture Perfect Picture uses over 125 photographs and illustrations to offer extraordinary analysis of detailed deliveries for the 25 best pitchers of the recent past, present, and future.