Volunteer Coach Resources
Every spring, youth baseball programs welcome legions of first-time coaches. This is especially true at the lowest levels of the game, like tee ball...
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Youth Baseball Bats
If you are buying a youth baseball bat, one of the most important decisions is drop weight. The right drop weight helps your child...
Youth Baseball Bats
Shopping for a youth baseball bat should be simple: pick the right size, pick a budget, done. But there’s one detail that trips up...
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We tested and reviewed the best batting gloves for baseball players at the youth, travel, and high school levels.
Scorekeeping & Game Management
We reviewed 30+ scorebooks to find the best options based on factors like durability, features, ease-of-use, cost and more.
Youth Baseball Rules & Planning
Recently, I was browsing a Facebook group for baseball coaches when I found a post that instructed pitchers to run poles after throwing in...
Youth Baseball Rules & Planning
As an adolescent living in baseball-poor Northern Michigan in the early and mid 1990s, I was desperate to learn how to increase my velocity...
Volunteer Coach Resources
In an earlier post I argued that hitters see too few simulated pitches compared to standard batting practice repetitions. When it comes to fielding,...
Volunteer Coach Resources
Most amateur baseball teams spend too much time taking routine batting practice and not nearly enough time hitting full-speed, count-based pitching. At the college...