Coaching category: 84 books

Coaching youth sports can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. However, it can also be one of the most difficult and discouraging. The difference will be determined by you—the coach.This book provides Essential Coaching Tips that will benefit everyone who wants to be a successful...

Get the score on coaching youth baseball Volunteering as a baseball coach can be a fun and rewarding experience. But what if you've never coached before? No worries! This friendly guide explains your responsibilities, giving you expert advice on creating a lineup, running drills with your team,...

For the first time ever, Coach Jeff Dawson, with decades of both playing and coaching experience across multiple states and venues, addresses the game of baseball in the way it demands to be addressed: from the fundamentals and psychology of the game!That psychology, however, is honed from...

Whoever claims winning isn't everything obviously has not spoken with an athletic coach.Coaching the Mental Game offers coaches of all sports a definitive volume for effectively understanding an athlete's mental awareness, which in turn will help drive success. Author H.A. Dorfman details appropriate...

After years of watching, reporting on, and photographing pro baseball, Kevin T. Czerwinski and Beth Balbierz began coaching Little League in their respective home towns. In Knack Coaching Youth Baseball, this expert team combine real-life know-how about how to deal with kids with the best lessons...

Baseball is a simple enough game. Yet, mastering the skills requisite to play the game at a competitive level, regardless of one’s age, often isn’t easy. Knack Coaching Youth Baseball applies the unique Knack format—short passages of text linked to instructive photography of both boys and girls...

Remember the good old days of coaching young athletes? Coaches gave the orders. The players responded with action instead of asking, “Why?” But those are examples of a relationship lost to the ages—specifically to the last millennium. And coaches from that last millennium in every field of sports...

The challenge for today’s modern coach is to push players without risking burnout, inspire them without bullying, and discipline players without constantly yelling. While no two coaches have the exact same approach to motivating their team, there are certain leadership skills coaches can develop...

This book is a compilation of my observations and experience over the years; it represents my personal philosophy of the game and coaching. As such, against the dictates of proper English language usage I have used personal pronouns ad nauseam because it is my experience and my philosophy. Much...

Get a new perspective on coaching your kid in any sport!This book is for everyone, especially for dads who coach their children. Dads love and want the best for their kids, but sometimes we get off-kilter when coaching them. Keeping in mind that everyone will see a given situation in their own way, I...

Bill Severns wrote this book to encourage parents and coaches to enjoy their kids and protect their childhood. Your children are only children for a few years-they have plenty of time later in life to be adults; it’s up to us to guard their childhood, to make it fun, and to protect that feeling...

The second edition is ready and just in time to correct some of the early season jitters.Still having a little trouble with parents?Ready for those young arms to reduce the number of walks?Ever really thought about what a coach stands for?If you answer yes to any of these...

From the author of "Pitching Strategies Explained", "Pitching Mechanics Explained" is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for coaches, parents, and players seeking to improve all aspects of a pitcher’s development. It is one of the very few books available specifically...

Coaching youth baseball is tough. Not only do coaches have to teach kids the fundamental skills of the game, they also have to know how to select a team, how to run efficient practices, and how to deal with parents and umpires. Furthermore, they have to make sure the game is fun for all the kids on...