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Youth League Coaches – How To Prepare For The Fall Youth Baseball Season
YOUTH BASEBALL COACHES How To Prepare For The Fall Baseball Season Addison Maruszak, AMP Pro Training 29 August 2016 facebook Instagram Twitter Vimeo Fall season should be highly focused on development whether you coach a youth league team, or a travel baseball...
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Travel Baseball Coaches – How To Prepare For The Fall Youth Baseball Season
TRAVEL BASEBALL COACHES How To Prepare For The Fall Baseball Season Addison Maruszak, AMP Pro Training 25 August 2016 facebook Instagram Twitter Vimeo As much as we want to say that travel baseball in the fall should be about development and not winning, we have to be...
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How to put your hand in a baseball glove
This isn’t as straightforward as you would think. At high levels, many players are putting their hands in their gloves a little different than expected. When you look at a glove it is obviously made to have a finger in every hole. But, a good percentage of players...
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The Secret – How I became a professional baseball player
There are many paths to becoming a professional baseball player, but I would like to tell you a little about mine. I was fortunate enough to get a D1 scholarship out of high school, which gave me the opportunity to become a Freshmen All-American and Big East...
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A Professional Understanding of “Charging the Ground Ball”
Charge the ball! We hear it all the time from youth baseball coaches, but what does this really mean for a professional player? After 6 years of helping youth leagues around the Tampa, FL area with a training and development program, this is one aspect of the...
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Two Hands! The most misused saying in youth baseball.
This is a big issue for me. Baseball players are told from day one to use two hands. Use two hands when catching a ball thrown to them, use two hands catching a pop up, and always use two hands catching ground balls. I might lose 99% of people reading this next...
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Swing up, level, or down on the baseball? Proper Swing Path
Proper swing path Alright, let the debate begin. How do you swing to the ball? Do you teach swing down? Do you teach swing level? Or, do you teach swing up? With the increase of technology making its way into baseball, we now have a lot of tools that will help us...
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The Most Common Hitting Mistake In Youth Baseball: With Corrections
We have been running a coaches training and development program for youth leagues for nearly 6 years now. The most common skill we get asked about is hitting. Players are having trouble hitting in the games and it is causing them to be less successful. From doing what...
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The Best Baseball Tees for Hitting
One of the most common questions we get from our youth league coaches is: What are the best baseball tees and which one should I get? In professional baseball, these are the only batting tees you will usually find in a batting cage. They are our top three...
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The importance of practice in a game where practice seems to be losing importance
We do a lot of baseball and softball training and development for youth leagues. We have created a program around getting leagues better, and by leagues we mean the COACHES, PLAYERS and PARENTS within them. It is highly focused around practice… In today’s game we have...
read moreOvercoming Fear of the Baseball
This little white ball with red seams can be very intimidating. Whether you are a seasoned pro or a youth baseball player, I believe there is always a fear of the baseball. We just have to want to hit or catch the ball more than we are afraid of it. No one wants to...
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The Dugout Blog: A Baseball Coach’s Best Training Tool
Welcome to The Dugout! It is our goal to make this platform, The Dugout, the most comprehensive place that you can come to find the highest quality baseball training resources. We believe this can only be achieved by providing more than just training videos and PDF...
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