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Where Do Great Baseball Players Come From?

Great Baseball Players “CAN” Come From Any State Or Region. But… I believe that the kids from up north…where the cold winds blow many months of the year, will have to work harder and smarter than their southern and warmer-weather counterparts. It may even cost a family more money due to the long distance travel, [...]

How To Encourage The Baseball Players Dream!

Baseball Players Should Be Encouraged To Dream Big!
Every Big Leaguer seems to have had the dream of playing Major League Baseball since they were young players.
Some of the common threads revolve around their home. It could be that the dad loved the game so they did too… and what an advantage it is to have [...]

How Important Is A Batting Tee Station?

Batting Tees are for babies  ……………. tee ball players.
But batting tees, like soft toss machines & pitching machines can be the key ingredients in the progress of any age player.
Frankly,  a high school , college or pro ballplayer might even tell you that they  hit more off a tee & toss station than they ever do in live drills… [...]

Training Your Baseball Player – A Parents Post

Growing a baseball player is no different than training a student in the classroom. You have the teacher who lectures and uses instructional information plus experiments & demonstrations to get the points across. There may be daily classes, quizzes, tests and final exams where grades are posted… and with hard work and a passing grade, the student advances to [...]

Can I Really Become A Baseball Player?

Can I Really Become A Baseball Player?
Yes You Can!

Jeff Kent retired recently.
Jeff Kent? – If you know the name and don’t know his game…you need to.
A veteran 2nd baseman for 17 seasons in The Big Leagues, Jeff was like most of us…not the biggest, fastest or strongest… he was just more determined to do what [...]

How Are You Planning To Become A Better Baseball Player?

Awesome Ball Girl Catch
I Bet She Practices Hard!

Last evening on my way home, I stopped at an indoor baseball training facility and watched players training to be better ballplayers for the upcoming season.
I had just visited Georgia Tech head coach Danny Hall…where his blue chip players were just finishing up their daily workout.
Here it was Friday evening at 7 PM and there [...]

How many stitches does a baseball have?

One of the most common questions I get asked is “How many stitches does a base ball have?” Not that is really matters when the ball hits a pitchers glove or a batters bat it just is one of those have to know questions!
There are 108 double stitches on a baseball (which some people call [...]

Backyard Batting Cage – The Value of Owning Your Own

I absolutely believe that the #1 backyard training aid that any player could ever hope to have is a backyard batting cage and a pitching machine… even if the pitching machine needs to be budgeted at a later date.
The reason this is so important has to do with how ballplayers are built, how they improve [...]

2009 Wilson Demarini Bats

Be sure to take a look at our new Wilson Demarini Bats for 2009.
We’ve selected the Demarini Voodoo aluminum and the Demarini CF3 composite as two of the best innovations this year. Both of these bats not only contain all the new features that are being used to create huge sweetspots and more spring, [...]

New Training Bats

Baseballtips now has a selection of thin-diameter training bats that are great for learning coordination and strike-zone discipline.  So many potential hard hits and home-runs turn into fly ball outs.  We all know that the difference between an out and a great hit can be just a fraction of an inch on the bat’s surface.  [...]

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