As we continue our philosophical blogs — happens a lot when a real season isn’t going on. Our youth baseball season in Northern VA is in the state tournament now but for everyone else it’s not much until the fall. I am running some practices to get some good...
This week I got to go to a Nats game with some glorious seats at Club Level and also a game at my hometown of Johnson City, TN, at what used to be Cardinals Park in the Appalachian League. I love watching the precision of the big leaguers — I will say the game...
If you want your kid to throw farther and faster – and pitching is the thing all kids want to do we need CORE MUSCLES Shoulder muscles LEG muscles Most people think throwing is with your arms. It isn’t – if you throw right you are building all the force and momentum...
Anyone old enough to remember the A’s–Yankees playoffs 1977 Game 6 – I’ll never forget. I was 12. My parents told me to go to bed. I kept the TV on soft – I couldn’t turn it off. Reggie Jackson blasted a HR on a line shot early in the game. Later he faced a...
What follows now is a discussion that makes me feel like I’m giving away the nuclear codes. Getting the hang of this took me a LOT of time of watching videos of major leaguers, frame by frame analysis, talking to college hitting coaches. This is solid gold if you...
Recent analysis of traffic to the site suggests that our number one page these days is stuff on Coaching T-ball. Makes us think that a lot of you are just getting your first T-ball team around now. Maybe you’ve played high school ball, maybe your a dad whose league...
