Great Practices, Great Games: Coaching Youth Baseball is for coaches who guide young people at all levels, from T-ball through high school. The object of this book is to help adults with the important and sometimes ominous task of coaching a youth baseball team and includes a foreword by Chicago White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas.
The book covers:
- Adult attitudes
- Getting cooperation from parents
- Organizing practices
- Building defensive skills
- Fundamentals of hitting
- Coaching baserunning
- Specific strategies
- Coaching pitchers
- Injuries and injury prevention