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Baseball Coaches Tool Kit by Peter Sprenkle
The Tools You Need to Coach A Baseball Team
- 103 Pages
- Spiral bound (paperback)
- Why reinvent the wheel? Here's a book with over 190 forms, charts, tests, drills, team letters & handouts. Items that every coach uses...all easy to read, print & customize for your team. Our bonus CD includes 195 tools and a practice video.
Price: $29.95
Stock# BK17
* Includes CD
Free Bonus CD - $15.00 Value!
A Youth Baseball Coaches Tool Kit is a collection of nearly 200 tools - ideas, approaches, drills & administrative forms - for coaching youth baseball. The book and bonus CD are designed to save you time, make you a better coach, and your team a better team.
The book is divided into 5 valuable sections:
- Getting Started
- Running The Team
- Communication, Development, Motivation
- Assessments and Evaluations
- A Team Handbook
The Tool Kit will help coaches plan, organize, and coach any level of youth baseball, from tee ball to senior league. The book has plenty of drills and contests to keep practice fun, and also contains all of the necessary forms and handouts that need to be distributed to parents and players.
As an added bonus, the majority of the tools in this book are available on the included CD, which features unique supplements to the book, including a 12 minute video (MPEG format) that shows many of the tools in use during practice. Forms, handouts and practice organization plans found in the book can easily be printed off of the CD.
- Youth Baseball Coaches Tool Kit (Book & CD)
- Developing a Successful Baseball Program
Price: $49.95
Stock# CB39
You save $5
Developing a Successful Baseball Program
A comprehensive book on setting up a baseball program. It lays a solid foundation by establishing the complete system, including fund-raising, motivation & discipline, team rules & team building, practice organization, and player development procedures for hitters and pitchers.
Coaches Tool Kit Book Breakdown
Section 1: Getting Started
Pages 1-90
- Starting the Team
- Communication with the Parents
- Equipment
- Uniforms
- Recreation vs. Competitive
- Softball Associations
- Season Overview
- Tryout Registrations
- Tryout Evaluation
- Coaching Philosophy
- Goals for the Season
- Expectations
- Team Rules
- Parent Letter 1
- Parent Letter 2
- Coach Parent Commitments
- Coach Player Commitments
- Liability Waiver
- Medical Treatment Permit
- Team Driver
- Volunteers
- Coaching Policy
- Coaching Principles
- Decision Making
- Success Factors
- Team Guidelines
- Finances
- Chaperone Duties
Section 2: Running the Team
Pages 15-46
- Line Up and Scoreboard
- Getting Prepared for a Practice
- Developing Your Practice Plan
- Tools for Running The Practice
- Sample Practice Plans, Defense
- Offense
- Indoor
- An Outfield Clinic
- Working with Parents
- Team Trips - Planning and Managing
- Pre Season Line up
- Projected Line up
- Line up card
- Scorecard
- Glossary of SB terms
- Skills Progressions
- Practice Guidelines
- Field Safety Review
- Drills
- Stations
- Defense Skills and Plays
- Contests
- OF Duck
- Scrimmage
- Simulated Game
- Graphics
- Teaching Skills
- Practice Plan 1
- Practice Plan 2
- Def Plan 1
- Def Plan 2
- Def Plan 3
- Offense Plan
- Indoor Plan
- Pitching Practice
- Pitching Drills
- Pitching Data
- Speed & Agility
- OF Clinic
- Team Lunch
- Fungo Forceback
Section 3: Communication, Development, Motivation
Pages 49-80
- Communication
- Development of the Coach
- Motivation
- Recognition
- Introductions
- Team News
- 10 Steps to Brighten
- Team Schedule
- Strategy Session
- Motivational Board
- Messages
- Sample Messages
- More Messages
- Words for the Day
- Thought for the Week
- Handouts
- Thoughts and Ideas from Around the Bases
- Objectives
- Certificate
Section 4: Assessments and Evaluations
Pages 64-68
- Scouting Sheet
- Self Assessments
- Softball Exam
- Season Evaluation
- Scout 1
- Scout 2
- Pre Season Assessment
- Post Season Assessment
- Softball Exam
- Softball Exam - Answers
- Season Evaluation
The Tool Kit will help all levels of coaches:
For coaches getting started....
The Tool Kit shows you how to start a team. It provides forms to get organized, instructions on how to determine what to teach in practice, how to organize your practices, sample practice plans, many stations, drills and contests to use in your practices, motivational material to challenge and develop your players, and handouts to use as teaching aids by giving them to your players.
For experienced coaches....
The Tool Kit includes a three session clinic for outfielders, six speed and agility tests, more drills and contests to enhance your practices, handouts about players responsibilities, and a pre-game plan for your players.
For travel ball/competitive team coaches....
The Tool Kit includes over 20 tools especially for travel ball teams that cover topics such as team trips, chaperones, lunches, uniforms, pre- and post-season player assessments, a competitive team coaching philosophy, a coach/player commitment form, a liability waiver, and information on building a team handbook.
What Others Have to Say About A Youth Baseball Coaches Tool Kit
"One of the best instructional and organizational texts I have seen. You offer the youth league coach a guideline for success."
Greg Riddoch, San Diego Padres manager from 1990-92
"This book has all the practical stuff that is missing from so many guides. You get the proper mix of philosophy, forms, mechanics, and drills. In addition, you get items that will work, that will make the game more enjoyable for players, coaches, and parents."
Bobby Simpson, Higher Ground
"The Tool Kit has lots of all around helpful ideas on the organizational needs for a team. I'm looking at a rack of books written by some great college coaches but they don't come close to addressing specific topics that deal with the group of players I'm coaching like the Tool Kit does."
John Gay, Complete Pitching Clinic
"Pete's new book is perfect for any youth baseball and T-Ball beginner coach. The book and CD provides you with the tools to help give you the confidence to organize, plan, prepare, and run your team like a seasoned pro."
Larry Antley, Texas Youth Coach
About the Author
Peter Sprenkle has been active in coaching youth sports for over thirty years. Pete has coached youth baseball and girls fastpich softball teams at every age group from 5 to 18-years old. The information in this Tool Kit comes from Sprenkle's experience with many sources, including coaching clinics, talking with other coaches, observation, imagination, and suggestions from players and parents.
Pete is a 1957 graduate of the University of Miami and spent 35 years working for IBM. He retired in 1992 and now devotes much of his time to youth baseball in his hometown of Boulder, CO.
Tool Kit Packages for the Baseball Coach
The 59 Minute Baseball Practice DVD
Problem
Youth baseball coaches don't have the experience or amount of time required to create the drills that lead to a fun and truly productive practice.
Solution
Marty Schupak's 34-minute DVD has over 30 easy to follow drills that will help coaches run a high quality practice in under one hour
Dry Erase Clipboard
This multiple use clipboard has a line score and field diagram on one side and a player roster with room for 16 names on the other. The field diagram is used to show your players where they will be on defense, while coaches can use the team roster side to display the batting line-up.
The clipboard's write-on, wipe-off design works with any dry erase pen or marker. The clipboard has a key ring clip that will attach to any chain link fence, making it easy to hang near the dugout entrance where players can't miss it...which saves you from having to answer the "When do I hit?" type of questions.
Tool Kit Packages for the Baseball Coach
Featuring A Youth Baseball Coaches Tool Kit (Book and CD)
Package # 1
- Contents:
- Baseball Coaches Tool Kit
- Dry Erase Clipboard
$39.95
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Package # 2
- Contents
- Baseball Coaches Tool Kit
- 59 Minute Practice DVD
$49.95
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Package # 3
- Baseball Coaches Tool Kit
- 59 Minute Practice DVD
- Dry Erase Clipboard
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