jack perconte

All About Baseball Diary

Helping Youth Ballplayers Learn Sport Resiliency

Coming this Summer - Jack's new book - another thing worth catching

Today's story at the end of this podcast has a great message for coaches of all levels and attests to the importanceof positive coaching. So many coaches become cynical andtake the joy out of the game for the players. This story is about one of those negative coaches. Fortunately, this coach receivedthe necessarywake-up call in time to put the fun back in the game for the players, as fun is the number one reason kids play sports.

In this podcast of Something Worth catching, former major leaguer and long-time youth instructor, Jack Perconte, along with Sam Zagorac, another long-time youth coach and owner of the Diamond Edge Academy in Willowbrook IL. discuss many of the issues of youth baseball. Additionally, this podcast ends with a hilarious, true story from Jack's playing days with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Today's story at the end of this podcast has a great message for coaches of all levels and attests to the importanceof positive coaching. So many coaches become cynical andtake the joy out of the game for the players. This story is about one of those negative coaches. Fortunately, this coach receivedthe necessarywake-up call in time to put the fun back in the game for the players, as fun is the number one reason kids play sports.