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Play Better Baseball : Winning Techniques and Strategies for Coaches and Players
Play Better Baseball Winning Techniques and Strategies for Coaches and Players Author:Bob Cluck This straightforward, easy-to-understand book helps prepare coaches and players to meet the challenges of tough competition. New revised, Play Better Baseball is the state-of-the-art source for baseball fundamentals and mechanics, illustrated with hundreds of photographs and accompanied by helpful new drills. Based on actual team situatio... more »ns drawn from author Bob Cluck's 20-plus years of coaching, this reader-friendly handbook emphasizes the fundamentals that produce winning baseball teams and offers a wealth of advice on: Coaching baseball at all levels
Developing winning players
Using videotape and high-speed film
Using practice time efficiently
The psychology of coaching
Pitching: the foundation of every team
Pitching mechanics
The pitches: Tools to get hitters out
Setting up hitters: The game within a game
First-pitch strikes, from Little League to the Majors
Playing the infield
Using the right glove
Throwing with strength and accuracy
The game situation and positioning
Fielding mechanics for infielders
The catcher: team leader
The tag at home
Blocking pitches in the dirt
Pop-ups, bunts, and cutoffs
Helping the pitcher get hitters out
Playing the outfield
Backing up plays
Throwing from the outfield
Balls hit in the gaps
Outfield positioning
Playing the sun
Baserunning
The steal and the hit-and-run
Effective and safe sliding techniques
Running the bases
Hitting
Bats and grips
Stances
Stride and weight transfer
Tracking the ball
Bunting
Situational hitting
The playbook
Defensive assignments
Infield pop flies
Bunt defenses
The athletic machine
Weight training for baseball players
Conditioning for baseball
Bob Cluck is a major league pitching coach and scout and the founder of the San Diego School of Baseball.« less