As baseball coaches for youth, competitive summer teams and high school teams, Brian has a collective knowledge about the best way to manage a team from the time practice starts to the time the team disbands for the year.

A Chapter by Chapter breakout from this baseball book is provided for your review:

Chapter 1 – Congratulations - You are the coach of a youth baseball team!

This chapter discusses the joys and fears of every coach when they realize they have taken on a responsibility that they may feel inadequate to do at that moment…relax and take it easy – this ebook has all the tools you will need to allow for everyone from players to parents and fellow coaches to ask to come back to play again next year, which is the greatest honor a youth coach can receive.

Chapter 2 – Preparation

Chapter 3 – The Tryout

How you present yourself, your coaching concepts, the existing players and even the parents can determine if you get to keep the great athlete who showed up at your tryout – doing it the right way is important. This chapter focuses on how to conduct the tryout, how to evaluate the talent and how to let athletes and parents know who made the team in a way that makes them want to come back next year to try again.

For coaches who coach recreational teams where the players are assigned, the tryout chapter gives you a great tool for player evaluations during the first couple of practices to help determine skill areas the individuals and team needs to improve upon during the course of the season.

Chapter 4 – The First Meetings

It is true about making a solid first impression, especially when dealing with parents of a baseball team. This meeting outline will be sure that you are confident and prepared to let the team parents and players know what to expect for the upcoming season. The parents and players will leave the meeting feeling great about you as the coach.

Chapter 5 – Indoor Practice

Indoor practices can be tricky in order to make the best use of the smaller facilities and push your team beyond simply taking batting practice. Learn some terrific indoor drills and techniques you can use to help your team be prepared when the weather changes and you are ready to move outdoors. Coaches give feedback to us that they are able to not only conduct the drills from this chapter easily to teach the right level of baseball instruction, but they use the drills to teach the baseball fundamentals they want their team to use when they go outside. It gives them a great head start.

Chapter 6 - Outdoor Practice

How to organize an effective outdoor practice, getting your main teaching opportunities, the players individual skill development, and some solid team building into each of the practices you conduct. This chapter is important because it focuses on the importance of keeping a team constantly moving during the practice sessions. You will be amazed at how easy it is to plan your practices and how much you can get accomplished in a short amount of time.

This chapter also ties in with the overall strategy for your team as you evaluate the team at the beginning of the season and determine the areas for improvement. Practice plans should be developed while reviewing the scouting data from the beginning of the season so that you can feel good about what your team and your players have been able to accomplish as the season progresses.

Chapter 7 – Scrimmage Game

This important chapter tells you how to make the most from your opportunity to play practice games. Setting the tone for the season at practice games is important. The players and parents will know what to expect of you and what you expect from them from day one. Allowing players to play multiple positions during a game to see where they might fit best is also discussed. Teaching sportsmanship while having fun during the game is another important concept discussed in this chapter.

Chapter 8 – Pre-Game Warm-ups

Every baseball team knows when they are playing a high caliber opponent by watching the way that a team warms up before a game. We have developed a structured process from the time the players arrive at the ballpark to get them ready to play baseball. From stretching to taking batting, infield and outfield practice, your team will look crisp and present an intangible factor that will tell opponents that your team is well managed and fundamentally sound.

Chapter 9 – Managing the Game

Managing a youth baseball game can be challenging if you do not have a solid game plan in mind prior to the start of the game. The pre-season will set the foundation for your game strategy. This chapter focuses on managing and communicating with your team between innings, when to approach an umpire, reacting to errors and bad plays and finally, how to substitute to be sure that players all have an opportunity to contribute to the outcome of the game.

The chapter concludes with how to have a successful post game talk with your team to be sure they learn from their mistakes while not going negative.

Chapter 10 – Drills and Resources

We have compiled some of the best time-tested drills to help with pitching, catching, infield, outfield and of course, hitting. These drills will allow you to keep your practice moving at a quick pace and will help your players to develop their baseball fundamentals. This group of drills is used by high school and competitive baseball teams to help round out their talent set.

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