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'Quick Hitting' Drills

This is a great series of drills and points of consideration that can help your hitters elevate their game and keep them mentally sharp and focused during practice.

Is Winning Everything?

Coaches drastically affect a young player's development both on and off the field. Here are strategies to ensure your priorities as a coach are in the right place.

How To Recruit New Volunteer Coaches

Youth baseball leagues are constantly dealint with the recruitment of new volunteer coaches or managers. Here are a few ways to get--and keep--good coaches.

(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Get in Playing Shape--FAST!

Every year coaches and athletes are faced with the same problem. For whatever reason (work, camp, pure laziness) athletes show up out of shape at the beginning of every season, especially after the summer.

Baseball is not just for the spring and summer.

Expand Baseball Season Into the Fall

In a more relaxed environment, fall baseball can offer a great opportunity for youth players to hone their skills and find a comfort zone on the diamond.

Photo: Luke Smith

Little League Enters Wood vs. Metal Debate

New York City has banned the use of non-wood bats in high school games. Is Little League next?

Parent's Guide to Little League All-Stars

Everybody wants to play in Williamsport--but regional all-stars are the first step. What every parent should know about the process of choosing Little League all-stars.

Inside an MLB bullpen with Pat Neshek

ESPN reads Pat Neshek's blog ...and so should you. Find out what it's really like to be a relief pitcher in the Major Leagues -- including Pat's technique for getting autographs from other big leaguers and the grueling travel schedule players encounter on the road.

Set Goals To Increase Performance

Setting goals can provide great results in all areas of life, including baseball.

Proper habits developed now will really pay off down the road.

The Perfect Practice Plan

Many coaches ask me how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their practices. Here's a "perfect practice plan" that will help your team improve.

Dave Barry on Little League Baseball

Dave Barry on his formative Little League years and what it's like to have a sewage station named after you.

Fastball Fact and Fiction

Every pitcher wants to throw harder. Every professional scout and/or college recruiter will tell you that 90mph is a magic number. These findings may just challenge the way you think of fastball velocity.