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    Baseball Coaching: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings
    Baseball Coaching: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings
    Baseball Coaching: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings
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    Baseball Coaching: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings

    By Royce Tippett

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    Baseball Coaching: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings provides youth baseball coaches and parents with a quick reference to proper baseball hitting and pitching mechanics. It serves to dispel some of the old cliches of baseball instruction that are overused and just plain wrong. It also provides the proper mechanics and full explanation that is necessary to see real skill development.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoyce Tippett
    Release dateMar 2, 2011
    ISBN9781458116291
    Baseball Coaching: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings
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    Royce Tippett

    Roy Tippett is the owner and operator of Tippett Baseball LLC and has been providing personal and professional instruction for over a decade. Roy is the former Head Coach at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park where he led the Highlanders to four winning seasons (2003-2007) and an NJCAA DII World Series appearance in 2006. He was the Region XVI Coach of the Year 2003-2006 and the Central District Coach of the Year in 2006. Roy is also a coach at Clayton High School in Clayton, MO.As a player Tippett was the Southwestern Conference Player of the Year as a Senior at Belleville West High School in 1993. He was a starting DI pitcher for the Saint Louis University Billikens in Conference USA (1995-1998). Tippett also pitched for the Gateway Grizzlies and River City Rascals of the Independent Frontier League in 2001.Roy is married to Lissie Tippett and they are the proud parents of Bobby Tippett born in April 2011.

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      Baseball Coaching - Royce Tippett

      Baseball Coaching:

      Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings

      Royce Tippett

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Royce Tippett

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my father Robert Tippett who helped me learn the game of baseball and allowed me to develop without putting extra pressure on me, and to my brother Mark Tippett who inspired me to practice and develop, and continues to help me be a better coach.

      Pre-Game Warm-Up

      Baseball is a thinking man’s game. There is time to think. Time between pitches. Time between at-bats. Time between innings. Strategy, analysis, and decisions are used more in baseball than in any other sport. It is like an athletic game of chess. The history and statistics of the game can be used to compare players and decisions from the past, and use them in today’s fast paced version of the same sport that has been played for years. The rules have not changed much, but the way the game is played and the mechanics of its players are ever-changing.

      Skills, instruction, and coaching theory get passed down from generation to generation in much the same way numbers like 61, 714, and 2131 were passed on as benchmarks for future legends. Many players learn the same skills, and clichéd instruction that have been handed down from father to son for generations. These standard instructions are often dated, misused, and just plain wrong.

      My goal in this book is to dispel the myths, correct the mistakes, and clarify the misunderstandings that today’s fathers and little league coaches have about the game of baseball. Keep in mind that there are a lot of theories about hitting and pitching out there. It is important that each chapter in this book is read with the understanding that everyone has a different set of skills. It is best to do what works. What might work for young players often doesn’t work when the game gets faster and pitchers throw harder. Therefore, it’s important to learn the mechanics that will help a young player stay at the top of the game as he ages. Hopefully, the fundamental mechanics detailed in the next few chapters will provide a base for coaches and players to reach a true understanding of the game and how it should be taught and played.

      It is also important to remember that the goal of coaching and mechanical instruction is not to make it to the big leagues. Improved skills and understanding provide a world of confidence to young players. As a collegiate player and coach, I have seen the confidence gained on the field carry over to the classroom and into the real world. A lucky few will get to play college baseball, and even fewer will get to play professional baseball. The knowledge and skills I hope to pass on to you, however, will help develop baseball skills that will translate to life. Teamwork, practice, and attention to detail will help players grow into productive athletes and people too.

      I’ve laid the book out in nine chapters or innings. Each inning details a common myth, mistake, or misunderstanding. The first four innings of the book focus on common hitting misconceptions, whereas innings five through eight detail common pitching myths. The ninth inning has to do with the mental game and what it means to be a successful coach and player. In addition, I have some side notes throughout that I call the Coaches Corner. These are ideas for a coach to use when relaying the proper mechanics to their players. I actually begin with a Coaches Corner and you’ll see why once you read it.

      I’ve tried to keep things concise, keeping in mind that busy parents can’t spend all day thinking, or reading, about baseball. Hopefully, you can read the entire book in a short time and get out and put the ideas to work at practice or on game day. I find in my instruction that most coaches are using a do this, not that approach. This usually isn’t enough, or it causes the player to overcompensate. So, I almost always use three possible approaches and try to find the one that works. Much like in life, the two extremes typically don’t work for most people but the middle ground works for most. However, it seems that in baseball one of the extremes can work for

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