Knack Coaching Youth Baseball: Tips on Building a Winning Team

by Kevin Czerwinski, Beth Balbierz (Photographer)

Overview

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 they've learned from the pros, creating a reliable, usable, and winning instruction book for youth baseball coaches -- and for parents who want some ideas for giving their kids a few pointers in the backyard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762762590
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/04/2010
Series:	Knack: Make It Easy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

Kevin T. Czerwinski is a sportswriter and former Record staff writer who has covered baseball for MLB.com for the past eight years. Currently he's a lead writer for MiLB.com, providing daily and feature coverage of Minor League baseball; he previously covered the New York Mets for MLB.com. He is also a regular featured guest on MLB radio. From 1993 to 2001, he was a staff writer for the Record / North Jersey Media Group covering college basketball and football, golf, and the New York Yankees and New York Mets.

 

Kevin has spent countless hours with professional managers and coaches, watching them drill their players. He has watched countless hours of batting practice, bullpen sessions, fielding drills. He brings this perspective home to his own family--he has coached son's Little League team for the last three years--and now shares these insights in this book.

 Beth Balbierz was a staff photographer for the Bergen Record for 15 years before beginning a freelance photography business. She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Journalism in 1985, interned at the Grand Rapids Press and Muskegon Chronicle, spent three years as a staff photographer at the News Sentinel in Fort Wayne, IN, and more than a year at the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, MI. Beth coaches her son's Little League and All Star teams.  She is the photographer for Knack Coaching Youth Soccer.

Table of Contents

Knack Coaching Youth Baseball

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One – Getting Started

Chapter Two – Equipment

Chapter Three – Rules and basic knowledge

Chapter Four – Preparing to Play

Chapter Five – T-Ball

Chapter Six – Hitting

Chapter Seven – Bunting

Chapter Eight – Catching Basics

Chapter Nine – Catching for older players

Chapter Ten – General Fielding

Chapter Eleven – First base

Chapter Twelve – Second Base

Chapter Thirteen – Third Base

Chapter Fourteen – Shortstop

Chapter Fifteen – Infield for older players

Chapter Sixteen – Outfield

Chapter Seventeen – Pitching

Chapter Eighteen – Pitching for older players

Chapter Nineteen – Base running

Chapter Twenty – Other resources