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Photo by Anete Lusina on Pexels.com I recently had an incident where I was a little too hard on one of my players. It turns out this is his first year playing baseball. He’s played other sports and is clearly athletic. He’s also very coachable. At practice, however, I got on him for not runningContinueContinue reading “Motivating Youth Athletes – You Need More than One Tool in Your Toolbox”

Last fall, I posted about making youth baseball line-ups. This morning, as I was making the line-up for our first game of the season – OPENING DAY, BABY! – I thought of additional recommendations. Here’s how I started the line-up: Start of Youth Baseball Line-up for 3/20 game I start with the template of allContinueContinue reading “Making Youth Baseball Line-Ups Part II”

As I mentioned in my previous post, in order to run effective practices – in fact, to help ensure a successful season overall – head coaches/managers need good assistant coaches.  I always ask parents to help out in my welcome letter .  In my experience, there are several who are very willing to help out. ContinueContinue reading “Effectively Using Assistant Coaches in Youth Sports”