Rookie coaches baseball guide
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Bibliographic Information
Rookie coaches baseball guide
Human Kinetics Publishers, c1993
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Rookie Coaches Baseball Guide provides a unique combination of coaching advice and baseball information for the novice baseball coach. This concise book presents the basic principles of coaching and shows how to teach baseball skills to kids. The Rookie Coaches Baseball Guide is part of a series developed by the American Coaching Effectiveness Program - America's premier coaching education programme. Endorsed by USA Baseball, Little League Baseball, and other amateur baseball organizations, this book is devoted to giving developing youth baseball coaches the basic coaching principles and specific sport information they need to be successful. This guide details the major responsibilities of a coach, the tools required to be an effective coach, the communication skills necessary for coaching young players, the steps in planning practices and teaching baseball skills, the basics for preventing and caring for injuries, and ways to avoid legal liability.
Plus the book provides essential information for coaching baseball, including an explanation of rules, basic plays that cover all aspects of the game, an introduction to keeping score and using a scorebook, coaching signals for communicating strategies to hitters and baserunners, individual and team drills that progress from the basics to gamelike situations, and a sample season plan for beginning baseball players. By combining the fundamentals of coaching and baseball in one resource, the Rookie Coaches Baseball Guide provides all the basic information developing baseball coaches need to make their coaching experience safe, successful, and enjoyable.
Table of Contents
Who, Me ... A Coach? What Tools Do I Need to Coach? How Should I Communicate With My Players. How Do I Get My Team Ready to Play? What Can I Do For Safety? What Do I Need to Know About Baseball? What Baseball Skills Should I Teach? How Do I Get My Players to Play as a Team? Appendix: Sample Season Plan for Beginning Baseball Players.
by "Nielsen BookData"