Play Ball: 100 Baseball Practice Games - Softcover

O'Connell, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736081577 ISBN 13: 9780736081573

Verlag: Human Kinetics, 2009

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More than 12 million players suit up for baseball each year in the US alone. American Baseball Coaches Association Coach of the Year Tom O’Connell presents more than 100 of the best practice games ever created. These skill-building competitions cover fielding, pitching, catching and hitting and prepare players for every game-day situation, from bunt defense to rundowns. Play Ball is an ideal resource for developing skills, engaging all players and fostering a spirit of competition and team unity. Original.

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Tom O'Connell has over 30 years of amateur and professional baseball coaching experience. A Major League Baseball recommending scout since 1986, O'Connell has worked for the Cincinnati Reds, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the 2008 World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies. A recipient of numerous state and national awards for his coaching, O'Connell was named the 1991 Wisconsin Baseball Man of the Year, elected president of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) in 2002, named the 2004 ABCA Coach of the Year, and inducted into the ABCA Hall of Fame in 2007.

O'Connell is a contributing writer for the Collegiate Baseball Newsletter and author of numerous articles in baseball publications such as Touching All Bases and the ABCA Quarterly Digest. He also wrote Coaching Youth Baseball and Coaching Baseball Technical and Tactical Skills for the American Sport Education Program.

O'Connell lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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• Verlag: Human Kinetics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0736081577
• ISBN 13: 9780736081573
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
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