Parenting Young Athletes The Ripken Way: Ensuring the Best Experience for Your Kids in Any Sport - Softcover

Ripken, Cal, Jr.; Wolff, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592402208 ISBN 13: 9781592402205

Verlag: Gotham Books, 2007

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The former Baltimore Orioles baseball star shares his concerns about how youth sports have become more competitive than fun, in a guide for parents and coaches that explains how to avoid counter-productive coaching practices.

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Cal Ripken, Jr., played 21 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles and has broken numerous baseball records, including Lou GehrigÂ’s record for consecutive games played (Ripken played 2,632). He is one of only eight players in history to achieve 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. His previous books include The Only Way I Know (which was a New York Times bestseller and a #1 Washington Post bestseller) and Play Baseball the Ripken Way: The Complete Guide to Fundamentals (co-authored with his brother Bill Ripken), also a national bestseller. He lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children.
Co-Author Rick Wolff is Vice President, Executive Editor at Warner Books and the Chairman of the Center for Sports Parenting (www.sportsparenting.org). He is the author of several books about parenting young athletes, including Good Sports: The Concerned ParentsÂ’ Guide to Competitive Sports (Dell, 1992) and The Sports Parenting Edge (Running Press, 2003).

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• Verlag: Gotham Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1592402208
• ISBN 13: 9781592402205
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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