Hitting with a swift stick and a whiffle ball
I hope I have this written up somewhere on the web site, but today at practice I brought a bucket full of whiffle balls and some pickle balls and some tennis balls and a Swiftstick and I threw to some of our players. I was just 15 feet away on one knee and it...
Should I Hire a Special Hitting Coach?
I’m on a coaches’ forum where people ask questions and coaches give answers in a very amicable way, but I just had to share more about a question I saw recently. It was something like, “I have a 7-year-old and I wonder if my son needs a special hitting coach.” I’m...
Infield In or Out?
And so it was at a game this week, we had a one-run lead going into the last inning. The home team gets a runner on third with one out. We brought the infield in and the next batter grounds out and the last batter strikes out and we win. But it is interesting to think...
One Pitch
So happy to get on a baseball field today after the long layoff from the end of the season in the Spring. I’m an assistant in our “Majors” and I think on a team of 11 I know a bunch — some of them I had years ago and now here they are all grown up. So I...Get the Book!
