Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball - Daniel Keller - NEW

The tips and strategies outlined in Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball will help any new coach plan a season full of terrific practices and successful games. Lighthearted and humorous, it’s a terrific resource for coaches who simply wish to help 5- to 10-year-old kids have fun and learn a few things along the way.

52-Week Baseball Training - A. Eugene Coleman

Get in better condition for baseball—and watch your game improve! Players are getting bigger, stronger, and faster every season. Their conditioning level is at an all-time high, resulting in more towering home runs and blazing fastballs than ever before. With 52-Week Baseball Training, you can use the same baseball-specific training regimen as the major leaguers to prepare for the demands of today’s game.

The Baseball Coaching Bible - Jerry Kindall and John Winkin

Much more than a book on skills, strategies, or drills, The Baseball Coaching Bible represents a landmark work for the sport. Many of the greatest coaches the game has ever known—including Coaches of the Century at the high school, junior college, NAIA, and Division I, II, III levels, as named by Collegiate Baseball—combine to cover all aspects of coaching. The 27 contributing coaches share their keys to championship baseball, something they know well, having won 50 national titles and nearly 25,000 games.

The Baseball Drill Book - American Baseball Coaches Association

Sharpen every aspect of player and team performance with The Baseball Drill Book. Featuring drills and tips to simulate game situations for every part of the sport including conditioning, base running, hitting, pitching, and fielding, this book provides the essential links between learning, mastery, and a winning performance on the diamond.

The Baseball Handbook - Bernie Walter

Arm yourself for every practice, every game, and every situation! This book is your one-stop source for expert nuts-and-bolts advice on every facet of baseball coaching. It’s the all-inclusive, instructionally sound handbook every baseball coach has been waiting for.

Baseball Skills and Drills - American Baseball Coaches Association

Master the fundamentals and best techniques in Baseball Skills and Drills. With detailed information on hitting, baserunning, pitching, and catching, it is a mandatory practice tool for coaches and players. Add to that the insights and tips from world class coaches, and the book will help improve performance on the field for players at any level.

Baseball Strategies - American Baseball Coaches Association

Some books teach coaches and players what to do; this also explains why. Developed by an all-star cast of coaches selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Baseball Strategies is the most comprehensive resource ever written on the tactical aspects of the game. Providing the content are 18 of the game’s top strategists, including several coaches whose teams have totaled more than 1,000 wins and have won national championships.

Coaching Baseball Successfully - Mike Curran and Ross Newhan

Build a winning baseball program both on the field and off! In Coaching Baseball Successfully, one of the nation’s top high school coaches, Mike Curran, shares his expertise on all aspects of coaching. From establishing a coaching philosophy to player development to in-game decision making, this is the approach that has made his program a perennial powerhouse on the national scene.

Coaching Baseball Technical and Tactical Skills - ASEP

Numerous coaching books cover the bases on the skills and drills of baseball. But very few hit on the tactical skills of the game: the situational decisions players and coaches make that often determine the outcome of games. That's where Coaching Baseball Technical and Tactical Skills stands out in the lineup of baseball titles available today.

Coaching Youth Baseball - ASEP

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.

Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way - Cal Ripken Jr., Bill Ripken and Scott Lowe

With Cal and Bill Ripken leading the way, Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way is the perfect guide to coaching success. This all-inclusive guide stresses simplicity, perfect practice, and fun. In addition to providing more than 50 practice drills, topics include coaching responsibly, goal setting for youth, and effective practice planning.

Coaching Pitchers - Joe McFarland

Want to improve the mechanics of your pitching staff? Can your pitchers hold runners and field their position? Do you know the finer points of developing pitcher-catcher chemistry? Coaching Pitchers offers complete details on every aspect of the pitching position. This practical guide on pitching will be a valuable reference you’ll turn to again and again.

Complete Conditioning for Baseball - Steve Tamborra

Strengthen your on-field performance with Complete Conditioning for Baseball. With customized workouts for position-specific skills, this book and DVD combination provides you with the exercises, drills, and programs designed to generate more hitting power, increase the velocity of throws, improve quickness, and enhance your overall abilities.

Fit to Pitch - Tom House

In more than 30 years in professional baseball as a pitcher, coach, performance analyst, and consultant, Tom House has helped enhance and extend the careers of many pitching greats, including Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan. In Fit to Pitch, Tom combines his on-field experiences, weight-room workouts, and years of research to deliver proven, practical applications that will strengthen your pitching throughout the year.

Gold Glove Baseball - American Baseball Coaches Association

Solid defense begins before the first pitch is thrown. From player placement to situational awareness, the nuances of superior fielding are vast and varied. That’s why the American Baseball Coaches Association’s top defensive minds have compiled Gold Glove Baseball--to give you an all-encompassing resource to help turn your team into a stellar defensive unit.

The Hitting Edge - Tom Robson

Hitting a hard-thrown baseball is one of the most difficult skills in sports. The Hitting Edge simplifies the task by focusing on key features common in every successful hitter’s swing: dynamic balance, sequential rotation, axis of rotation, and bat lag.

Offensive Baseball Drills - Rob Delmonico

Help your team score more runs! In Offensive Baseball Drills, Rod Delmonico, Baseball America`s 1995 NCAA Division I College Coach of the Year, shows you 68 offensive drills he uses to take his teams to the top.

The Pitching Edge - Tom House

Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Kevin Brown, and on and on. Tom House helped develop these athletes into the great pitchers they became-Hall of Famers and Cy Young award winners. Having spent 20 years in the Major Leagues as a pitcher and pitching coach, and more than that studying the science of pitching, House was well-prepared to unleash the maximum potential from his star pitcher pupils. Now, in the new edition of his highly acclaimed The Pitching Edge, House accomplishes through a book what he has been doing directly for decades with pitching prodigies.

Play Ball - Thomas O'Connell

ABCA Coach of the Year Tom O’Connell presents over 100 of the best practice games ever created. The skill-building competitions cover fielding, pitching, catching, and hitting; they also prepare players for every situation from bunt defense to rundowns. With full practice plans based on the games included, it’s an ideal resource for coaches.

Playing Better Baseball - Rick Wolff

Teaching baseball fundamentals is difficult, but not nearly as tough as guiding players beyond a basic performance level. Veteran coach and player Rick Wolff, who worked his way up to the pro ranks on smarts and sweat, now shares insights he gleaned from playing and coaching thousands of games at every level of competition.