Postseason baseball is one of the best classrooms kids will ever experience. The pressure, excitement, mistakes, momentum swings, and emotional highs and lows force young players to learn something far bigger than baseball: resilience. In youth sports, momentum can...
As a new baseball season begins, I thought I’d share my thoughts on one of the oldest debates in youth sports: playing time. If you’re a volunteer coach—especially a coach with your own kids on the team—it’s easy to feel like you’ve earned a little privilege. After...
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...
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...
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...
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...
