OK this one is hard.  You need space for real hitting.  You can use nets, but most parents don’t have them and if a kid hits a ball they have to go chase it.   Batting cages are nice if you have any that are open during the pandemic.   If not hitting off a T is...

This one seems hard.  I mean don’t you need a baseball field to work on fielding.  Surely you need a dad to line the kid up at shortstop, get a bucket of balls, walk over to home plate and toss one up and hit a shot 6 feet to the kids left so he can show some agilty...

The key to defense is to throw to a target.  If you can get to the ball, you usually have to throw to a target and the accuracy of that throw drives success or failure.  Getting it close to the target is often not good enough.  A throw that pulls the first baseman off...

Here's a question I just saw on a parents forum --  a friend of mine sent it and I think the answer is worthy of a blog post. The question: It's only the second game in on this team, with 8, 9, and 10 year old boys. One boy has expressed his disgust at "being on a...