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COACHING YOUTH BASEBALL  

Coaching youth baseball with good attitudes will make your coaching job a lot easier..as a coach or parent.

Coaches calling a timeout can promote positive attitudes in youth baseball. To promote and maintain a positive attitude in youth baseball, we as coaches need to make sure we do not "lose our cool," as the opportunity to do so will happen many times.

The best time to prepare our kids for youth baseball is not two weeks before the first game. Find out what you can do as a parent or coach to start improving your kids immediately.

There are two simple youth baseball batting tips that will improve any youth baseball player at his chance to bat.

Your players need to be in the ready position before every play. You cant field a ball and make the play unless you are ready. Youth baseball defense starts with the ready position.

In youth baseball there is nothing worse or more feared than striking out looking. Coaches need to be sure hitters have different styles but need to adjust when there is two strikes. How do we decrease strikeouts?

A youth pitcher needs to take ownership of the mound to correctly perform before even the first pitch is thrown.

Fielding a ground ball starts with the ready position. This piece explains what one should do when the ball is hit to them, or close to them and how to field a ground ball.

Most teams start practice and games with two players throwing to each other as a warm up. Let's learn how to make it a little more fast-paced and productive

Baseball instructor Marc Shoenfelt discusses his approach to coaching youth baseball and the emerging success of his book, "Baseball's Forgotten Basics: A Field Manual and Instructional DVD."

Part of a series on coaching youth baseball, this guide helps in selecting a bat and teaches how the bat should be held. This includes full swing, half swing and bunting.

A free youth baseball drill to reinforce the ready position and fielding to make the play at first.

Bunting can help any youth baseball team - Here is a quick how to guide with six easy steps toward effective sacrifice and drag bunting.

Parents, coaches, volunteers, and players are important to a successful baseball or softball season. This article gives examples of how parents can influence the coaching philosophy.

How can youth baseball pitchers give away the pitch? Why should coaches and youth baseball hitters watch the pitcher?

Let's face it, we're just not all cut out to be coaches. How can the concerned parent be part of the "team" without having to take charge of the team?

I was asked to coach a Little League team because I was the only parent that stayed to watch practice. It was not my extensive qualifications for the job. My team won my only championship that year and I coached my last game twelve years later.

Other youth sports vary in the ability to help develop youth football players. All are great activities, but some are greater than others.

This institution that is Japanese baseball goes much further than a box score, a pennant race, or the corporate ties that all Japanese professional baseball franchise are attached to.

Some key tips to help keep your special teams groups straight.

Coaching youth teams is about much more than winning. Teamwork, respect, and discipline are just a couple of the skills you should be teaching your young athletes. Understanding these areas will make you a better coach, and your team a more successful team.

Simple ideas on developing a productive and fundamental practice for small town elementary and middle school age basketball players.

Everyday, across this country, twenty million children are involved in sporting events of one kind or another. They suit up and head out to play soccer, football, baseball, and many others, but a growing problem is plaguing children's sports; the bad sports parent.

An examination of ESPN's transformation from sports news, to sports gossip. Once filled with facts and stats, ESPN programming has increasingly become about the "talking heads" and less about the athletes.

A few ideas on dealing with criticism while coaching.

Instead of congesting a club "season" into three spring and summer months and focusing entirely on exposure, elite players should have the option to forsake their high school teams and play meaningful games against equal competition with good coaching.

My experience coaching a children's basketball game and what I learned.

By and large Little League coaches are people of fine character and good community spirit. Sometimes in the midst of competition they can forget what Little League is really all about. Here are a few concepts about coaching Little Leaguers that bear remembering.

Dan Snyder is slowly turning into the George Steinbrenner of the NFL...without the championship rings!

My life in August.

Parents living vicariously through their children.

The New York Yankees are burdened by past success, relying on an old formula to get the team into the post-season before falling apart in a changed league. Significant changes are necessary to take the team back to the World Series.

An education is not something we get; it's an individual pursuit from within. In sports, the great coaches pay attention to learning strategies and the differences inherent in each player to maximize their instruction and aid players' development.

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Addition of Kariya, Tkachuk, and Jackman have fans optimistic.