When former athletes are asked about positive or negative coaches from their past, all seem to remember them for a long time, if not forever. Unfortunately, many youth baseball coaches do not look at the big picture when coaching youth. Failure to realize that they have a tremendous opportunity to shape kids’ lives is naïve, [...]
Unfortunately, many people hear the terms positive coaching and positive parenting and roll their eyes as if they do not want to hear them. It is a shame some people look negatively on those terms. I assume it is because they know sports are not all fun and games. They do not want to hear [...]
I am not one to talk bad about baseball. I absolutely love the game – all phases of it from the big leagues down to the youth baseball level. As you probably have noticed, I believe in positive parenting in sports and keeping the fun in baseball and write about them often. But, it [...]
Image by familymwr via Flickr The psychology of coaching youth sports certainly changes when one’s own child is part of the team. Keeping a good, solid relationship with one’s own child requires more thought and care than just coaching youth sports. Along with dealing with the many personalities on a youth sports team, dealing with [...]
Now that the World Series is over and fall baseball is concluding for most players, it is time to begin preparing some offseason baseball workouts. Taking a break from baseball practice at this time is a good idea because year round playing can lead to burnout and monotony. A two or three month break from [...]
Baseball is a game of numbers. Baseball statistics are kept for about everything, down to the last out, so to speak. That is fine at the higher levels of baseball, because much-needed information from baseball statistics helps teams win games. Baseball statistics at the higher levels of ball help get good hitting matchups, replace pitchers, [...]
We have all seen parents and sport coaches that are so negative and overbearing with young athletes that they take the fun out of sports for them. These “fun-zapping” adults are obviously detrimental for athletes’ future in sport. Not so obvious are the more common adults, who have good intentions, but do not realize that [...]
Image by Boyce Duprey via Flickr What is Youth Baseball and How Does It Relate to Little League Baseball? Youth Baseball is a division of Little League Baseball that is considered more difficult and advanced due to the age brackets of the players. In fact, Little League started a pilot division for pre-teens [...]
Baseball has been a huge part of my life, from playing little league baseball to the major leagues, as well as having taught baseball for the past 23 years. Because of that, there is not much that I like more than watching good, quality baseball. Additionally, because I played little league baseball as a kid, [...]
My journey began like most kids in my era with little league baseball. I was a good little league baseball player, better than most, but I doubt anyone saw major league potential in me back then. I would like to say that I had a great amount of talent but that is not entirely true, [...]
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