Coaching Youth Softball is written especially for the unprepared parent thrust into the role of coaching his or her 8- to 12-year-old child's softball team. Upbeat and inspirational, it schools new coaches in the fundamentals of controlling, motivating, and encouraging a disparate group of kids in the art and science of softball.
Parents learn the logistics of running a youth team and the specifics of coaching softball. They learn how to match drills to a player's skills and motivation level and gain a wealth of detailed instructions on such specifics as how to run a successful practice and manage during a game.
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<li>Takes a drill-based approach to teaching basic skills</li>
<li>Reviews softball fundamentals for inexperienced parents</li>
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Coaching Youth Softball: A Baffled Parent's Guide

Parenting & Relationships

Joseph, Jacquie

Parenting

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Each spring, Tee-ball introduces millions of boys and girls to "America's pastime" --and introduces their parents to the joys (and nightmares) of coaching first-time players. Filled with expert advice and tips on creating order from chaos, Coaching Tee-Ball is the solution to every baffled parent's predicament, offering the new coach a total approach to keeping kids involved, motivated, and having fun.

Coaching Tee Ball : The Baffled Parent's Guide

Reference

Broido, H. W. "Bing" Bing

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

All you need to know about Tee Ball from the leading name in children's sports Endorsed by Little League Baseball®, The Little League® Guide to Tee Ball covers all the bases for parents as well as coaches. Authors Ned McIntosh and Rich Cropper, who have nearly thirty years of coaching experience between them, show you how to keep the game fun for the kids while you teach them baseball fundamentals. In this informative and easy-to-read book, you will learn how to help your rookies develop the coordination and confidence they will need throughout their Little League careers--and beyond. Topics include: <ul>
<li> Choosing the right equipment </li>
<li> Teaching kids to hit, throw, catch, and run bases </li>
<li> Teaching the rules and positions of the game </li>
<li> Keeping practice fun and maintaining proper perspective </li>
<li> Deciding to register your child in Tee Ball rather than softball </li>
<li> And more </li>
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From breaking in a new glove to developing a natural swing, The Little League® Guide to Tee Ball gives you the advice and know-how to teach the next generation of baseball players.

The Little League Guide to Tee Ball : Helping Beginning Players Develop Coordination and Confidence

Sports & Outdoors

McIntosh, Ned

Cropper, Rich

Baseball

McGraw=Hill

“Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.” --Michele Smith Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen. Straight from the Michele Smith Gold Camps and Clinics, these drills are designed to give you all the tools you need to teach the entire range of offensive and defensive softball skills. With Michele's expert guidance and instruction, you'll coach your players to: <ul>
<li>Master the mechanics of footwork for fielding with hustle </li>
<li>Swing for the fences and hit the fastest pitches </li>
<li>Catch the ball proactively and throw it quickly and accurately to its target </li>
<li>Defend the infield and outfield with speed and confidence </li>
<li>Run the bases swiftly and strategically </li>
<li>Refine fast-pitch skills so they can windmill like Michele </li>
<li>And much more</li>
</ul>

Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills: Developing the Essential Skills in Every Player

Smith, Michele

Hsieh, Lawrence

Miscellaneous

Learn how to manage your youth team to success

Managing Little League (Little League Baseball Guide)

It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.

Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park

Amenta, Edwin

Biographies

University of Chicago Press

Penny Farrell, captain and third baseman of the Hawks softball team, tries to uncover the reason for the strange behavior of two teammates who have also suddenly turned into super athletes.

Supercharged Infield

Christopher. Matt

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Co

Frankie's Magic Football: Frankie's New York Adventure

Softball

Little, Brown Young Readers

Text and illustrations explain the rules of softball in such categories as base running, appeal plays, and umpires.

Softball Rules in Pictures

C. Jacobs McCrory

Perigee Books

Your Athlete Advantage: 
Success Beyond Game Day™ 
Become Champions in All Aspects of Life 
How does an athlete accustomed to the limelight live in the afterglow of their sports career? How can they successfully transition from being a Top 1% performer to a real-world career success? 
Samantha Card is the Athlete Advantage! A former NCAA Division 1 softball player, MBA graduate, Fortune 100 company trail blazer and “level up” expert, epitomizes the athlete who has “hit it out of the park” when she transitioned from her sports career. 
Samantha passionately crystallized her abilities, curated her knowledge, capitalized her assets and catapulted her athletic career finale into a mega corporate and life success. 
She accomplished all this before the age of 33. Committed to excellence and legacy creation, she passionately shares her decisive strategies, 5 step playbook and winner mindset with other professional athletes who face the toughest question in their lives. “What do I do after game day is over? 
Samantha, once referred to as “Sammi from Miami”, is on a global mission to teach athletes how to develop a proactive championship routine from Day 1 that can be leveraged beyond game day. She prepares you to win in all aspects of life by identifying opportunities, taking action, and applying the life tools gained in competitive sports to business success. 
The Athlete Advantage, Success Beyond Game Day, is your chance to tap in, get to work, walk into any room and get a seat at the most important tables! She looks forward to sharing how to level up and leverage your assets into a lifetime achievement, annuity, and legacy.

The Athlete Advantage: Success Beyond Game Day

Business & Money

Card, Samantha

Industries

Sammi From Miami LLC

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