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Friday Conditioning Tip

Why Other Baseball Conditioning is not everything

Major league player, John Kruk once said, "I'm not an athlete, I am a professional baseball player." That funny line may have had meaning at one time, but now, professional baseball players use baseball conditioning tools to become supremely, fine-tuned athletes. However, there is still some truth to what John Kruk says. Not all the baseball conditioning speed and strength work in the world makes a ball player.

Saturday Secrets to Great Baseball Coaching

I use this baseball coaching motivation technique often with great results. This baseball coaching motivation technique is very simple and very effective.

Run Effective Baseball Practice by Doing These

In all my years of coaching and teaching baseball, I have found that nothing is more important than making practice time seem as vital to playersas the games are. This is no easy challenge of course, because games are so much fun for most players, but still a good challenge to try to live up to for coaches. Following are 5 keys to run effective baseball practice.

Coaches should:

The importance of a good baseball batting t

I am not a big believer in buying high priced baseball equipment for youth players, except for when it comes to buying a baseball batting t.

One of the very first questions I ask my baseball students is, "Who has a batting tee at home?" An often-heard response is, "I do, but it's broke."

I sometimes wonder if kids of today have an advantage when it comes to learning to hit a baseball. Judging from below, I would say yes, if kids do this one thing that we did for learning to hit a baseball.

The importance of a good baseball batting t

I am not a big believer in buying high priced baseball equipment for youth players, except for when it comes to buying a baseball batting t.
One of the very first questions I ask my baseball students is, "Who has a batting tee at home?" An often-heard response is, "I do, but it's broke."

The problems in sports are greater now than ever. Of course, the problems in sports and the solutions to those problems are large enough for college courses to cover, but here is a short list of the many negative sports issues along with the number one solution for the problems in sports.

I am sorry for the personal nature of this major league stadium review, but some places in our lives get right to the heart of the matter. You would think a day you looked forward to your entire life would have a prominent place in one's memory not mine. As mentioned all along with my stadiums reviews, the beauty and aura of a place only goes as far as how well I played in the ballpark.

I should have had Ted Williams in my pocket

Hitting popups may be better than hitting ground balls

Youth baseball coaches often preach to players the negatives of hitting popups and that ground balls are much preferred. They should be careful with that philosophy.

Hitting Drill of the Year Teaches Hitting the Outside Pitch

When players or parents ask what players can do at home for hitting practice, or when little practice time is available, this is often the drill I recommend. Two batting tees are necessary.

10 Baseball Observations when on the Bench

Top 10 Baseball Hitting Tips of 2014

When I look back at my hitting lessons this past year, I realize I repeat many baseball hitting tips. I have thought about making an audio tape of those tips. With that, I could just press a button when I need one of them to save on the voice, as many radio and TV shows do. Just kidding, but I have said these thousands of times, I suppose, as they address many common hitting mistakes.

This spring I am coming out with my third book Creating a Season to Remember - The New Youth Sports Coaching Leadership Handbook.

Baseball Hall of Fame Change of Mind

I would never want to be a cheater, fraud or phony, who would? But to avoid being one, I have switched sides - let any deserving player in the Baseball Hall of Fame, even Pete and the steroid guys - that is my new view, and I know many others have taken up that side of things, too.

Why Baseball Coaching Resolutions are Necessary