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Youth Baseball Drills - Marty Schupak
Youth Baseball Drills
by Marty Schupak
NEW, 208 pages
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About Youth Baseball Drills
Use Youth Baseball Drills to develop players’ understanding, skills, and love for the game. The activities presented will help you make each practice more educational and fun.
This handy coaching tool contains a variety of both tried-and-true and innovative drills that build on and reinforce your technique and tactic instruction of 7- to 12-year-olds. Drills are easily located by topic in the seven chapters, and they progress in difficulty so that you can choose the most appropriate ones for your players’ abilities in each facet of the game. And, because attention spans are short at those ages, each drill is designed to maximize the number of players involved on the field.
Helpful tips throughout the book make on-field practice, organization, and time management much easier. Youth Baseball Drills is your guide to fun, productive practices so that your players get the best possible experience playing the sport.
About Marty Schupak
Coach Marty Schupak is the founder and president of the Youth Sports Club, a group dedicated to improving little league coaching and youth baseball. His Web site, www.youthsportsclub.com, has become one of the most frequented resources for youth coaches and parents.
Over the past 15 years, Schupak has managed or coached more than 1,200 kids in youth athletics with teams winning over 200 games and a host of championships. Many of his former players and students have gone on to successful high school baseball careers and athletic college scholarships. In addition to coaching baseball, Schupak has coached children in basketball and soccer. He has served on different leagues' boards of directors, including the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Schupak has written numerous articles on youth sports and developed the best-selling baseball video The 59 Minute Baseball Practice as well as Backyard Baseball Drills, Winning Baseball Strategies, 48 Championship Basketball Drills, Pitching Drills & Techniques, and Championship Soccer Drills. He received a bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1975 and a master's degree in physical education from Arizona State University in 1978. Schupak lives in Valley Cottage, New York.
Reviews of this Book
"Marty Schupak is one of the foremost authorities on teaching the fundamentals of baseball to kids, and has proven it in Youth Baseball Drills. Coach Schupak knows kids, he knows baseball, and he communicates in a clear, easy-to-understand style."
Dave Destler
Junior Baseball Magazine
About Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.
In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.
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