“Coaching Youth Baseball” by Jim Bain

If you are serious about becoming the best baseball coach you can be and acquiring the knowledge to teach the skills of how to play the game of baseball at an extremely high level, Coaching Youth Baseball is your key to success.

This well-written, easily understood training manual is the accumulation of over 40 years of playing, being professionally coached and coaching baseball teams at expert levels of “Traveling Teams,” Division I College Baseball, and a grueling route through the professional minor system up to the Major League level.

This manual is not your typical hit, run, throw instruction book, although those basic instructional books are extremely beneficial as a starting point. Coaching Youth Baseball reiterates basic skills, but intentionally quickly gears the subject matter to developing higher skill levels based off the basic skill.

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