What I've Learned From Baseball by Coach John Peter
The game of baseball is infinitely more complex than most give it credit for. Most that I have learned about baseball is common sense.but each lesson took someone with more common sense than I to point it out.
Coaching
Time everything. Why. Players like to compete and achieve goals. They will improve and they push themselves more.
Have players compete with and against each other in practice. Why... See above!
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Baseball's Believe It or Not
Ted Williams' 33-year Old Son Signs Minor League Contract
John Henry Williams, the son of the Splendid Splinter, signed an $850 per month minor league contract, sans the signing bonus, last week with the Red Sox. "I am here to play well enough to get beyond minor league baseball, if at all possible," said Ted Williams' son. The Kid's kid, a 6 foot 5 inch, 220 pound first baseman, throws and bats right-handed and hasn't played organized baseball since high school. Said John Henry, "I'm extremely lucky to have a chance to do something like this. I know it is a long shot, but most successful people are willing to fall on their face. I believe I'm going to surprise some people, but I'm 33 now and it's not going to be an easy road."
Of course, being the son of the last man to hit over .400 gave John Henry the ability to travel that road. ''Obviously, we are doing this out of respect for Ted Williams,'' said assistant general manager Theo Epstein. Ted, 83, is on kidney dialysis and has required round-the-clock care at his Hernando, Florida home since undergoing nine hours of heart surgery a year and a half ago. John Henry is his dad's primary caretaker and also runs the Ted Williams Museum & Hitter's Hall of Fame
Looking to make the most of his improbable opportunity, John Henry hired a personal batting coach and has been taking batting practice in a cage constructed outside his dad's home. Although the contract needs the standard MLB approval, Williams should be cleared to play for the Red Sox' rookie level Gulf Coast League team in Ft. Myers this week. In the meantime, Williams has been working out with, and accompanying, the Red Sox rookies, most of whom are in their late teens or early twenties, to games for the past week. To no one's surprise, the Red Sox do not consider Williams to be a prospect.
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Baseball Quotes, Wit & Wisdom: Ted Williams
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
If I was being paid $30,000 a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
Today's average salary: $2,384,779
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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College Baseball
Horns Hook 'em: Texas Wins College World Series
The University of Texas claimed its fifth baseball national championship when the Longhorns beat the South Carolina Gamecocks 12-6 last Saturday. Texas went 4-0 in Omaha, as they beat Rice, swept two games against Stanford and beat South Carolina, which hadn't played in the title game since losing to the Longhorns in 1975. The championship was the first for Texas since 1983, when Roger Clemens led them to the title. Texas coach Augie Garrido became the first to win the College World Series with two schools; he won three titles at Cal State Fullerton. Texas finished 57-15, while South Carolina ended up 57-18. In other college baseball news, Columbus State (GA) won the Division II championship, while Eastern Connecticut State claimed the Division III title.
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