Coaching Pitchers - 3rd Edition

by Joe McFarland

Book Overview

Want to improve the mechanics of your pitching staff? Can your pitchers hold runners and field their position? Do you know the finer points of developing pitcher-catcher chemistry? Coaching Pitchers offers complete details on every aspect of the pitching position. This practical guide on pitching will be a valuable reference you'll turn to again and again. Challenging technical instruction is communicated effectively through plain talk combined with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736045090
• ISBN13: 9780736045094
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

Fundamentaly sound pitching instruction!

Coaching Pitchers is well written, easy to read and understand, and provides a wealth of how to teach your pitchers the proper fundamentals of pitching. This book is well worth the price and needs to be read by EVERY youth coach. The techniques, drills and suggestions are well documented with illustrations and diagrams.If you only buy one book this year, get this one!

Very Helpful

Nicely layed out and a great guide for developing young pitchers from 8 year-olds through high school.

As good a book on pitching as there is

This is as good an introduction to the art of pitching as there is. Simple but not simplistic with excellent illustrations. I recommend it highly.

The most ingenious book ever devised for coaches/pitchers.

Spanky MacFarland has devised an excellent book for secondary level coaches and players. While this book emphasizes techniques and drills directed more toward older players (teenagers or older), it also provides the most mechanically sound, descriptive, and understandable information I have yet to see for this subject. Excellent sketches show proper techniques and motions to eliminate the ambiguity of text-only documentation. I advise any upper-level coach or player to purchase this book.

This is the best instruction for coaches that I've found

This book covers the fundementals in a way that makes them clearly understood. Coaches will not only be able to instruct young pitchers in the proper fundementals, but will be able to easily and quickly recognize good and bad pitching form. It's well worth the money.