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Tee Ball Drills: Offense and Defense – Progression 1 & 2

Fundamental Focus: These progressions will teach your players how to field the ball and throw to the proper base. What You’ll Need: Tee Balls Bases Buckets (3) Drill Sequence: Progression […]

10 Things Every New Youth Baseball and Softball Coach Should Know

Once tryouts are completed, the player draft is completed, and rosters take shape, it’s important to remember many parents and other volunteers are also taking their first steps into coaching. […]

Three Tips for Instilling Sportsmanship

Good sportsmanship is often associated with taking a loss gracefully. That’s certainly true, but winning gracefully is just as important, according to Dr. Wendy Middlemiss, Ph. D., an associate professor […]

Successful Coaches Understand Player Evaluation, Patience, and Development

Every summer, of the thousands of Little League teams that participate in the Little League® International Tournament, only a few become World Series champions. Some of those teams boast a […]

Tee Ball Drills: Fielding

Fundamental Focus: Fielding helps players learn the proper techniques of fielding a ground ball. What You’ll Need: Tee Balls Cones Drill Sequence: In separate lines the players line up and […]

Tee Ball Drills: Left Field, Center Field, Right Field

Fundamental Focus: Left Field, Center Field, Right Field will make your players more aware of the outfield boundaries. What You’ll Need: Cones (3) Drill Sequence: The players begin in left […]

Tee Ball Drills: Team Throwing

Fundamental Focus: Team throwing helps players strengthen their arms and make more accurate throws. What You’ll Need: Hula Hoops Clips or String Cones Buckets Balls Drill Sequence: Players are grouped […]

Tee Ball Drills: Run the Bases

Fundamental Focus: Run the bases helps players become more familiar with the bases and basepaths. What You’ll Need: Bases (4) Drill Sequence: Following the coach, the players run/jog around the […]

Coaching Young Pitchers in Baseball – Keep It Simple

Properly coaching a pitcher is hard, but that task is far less difficult than actually pitching. Imagine what it is like to be a young pitcher trying to learn the […]

Coaching Young Pitchers in Softball – Keep It Simple

Properly coaching a pitcher is hard, but that task is far less difficult than actually pitching. Imagine what it is like to be a young pitcher trying to learn the […]