The Baseball Drill Book

by American Baseball Coaches Association

Book Overview

Seventeen of the game's top collegiate coaches have teamed up with the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) to bring you the game's most comprehensive assortment of practice activities. The Baseball Drill Book features 198 drills proven to improve individual and team performance. Former Fresno State coach Bob Bennett, Ripon College's Gordie Gillespie, Lewis-Clark State's Ed Cheff, Wichita State's Gene Stephenson, and South Carolina's Ray Tanner...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736050833
• ISBN13: 9780736050838
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

All covered

This book is all you need to get a good start. All the basics and more for EVERY player on the team. This book takes some time to get through but it's worth the time for you, the team and your players. Great tips and techniques.

Great book for coaches and player

This book is great for a Baseball coach, from Little League all the way through high school. Not only does it give a number of drills for each area (e.g. warmups, throwing, pitching, catching, batting, defensive situations), but it provides many illustrations to show how the drills should be run, and provided details on the how and why. I have recommended this book to a number of other coaches and each has really appreciated it.

Great Book

This is a great tool for coaches looking to add variety to their practices. This book has helpful illustrations to facilitate each drill. Also the nice thing about this book is the detailed explanation of what each drill is looking to achieve, and gives variations of most drills to make them more challenging. I coach HS Freshman baseball and use many of these drills to teach the foundation of the high school game. I would recommend this book to coaches of all levels.

Times have changed

Kids are playing baseball at a much higher skill level these days, and are playing less sandlot baseball like I did when I was a kid. As a result, Little League practices need to be more than just BP and infield practice for the players to develop to their full potential. This book has drills that range from fundamentals, to more complex workouts for the entire team. There are some drills appropriate for kids as young as T-Ball (and I have used them with players as young as 5) - but all of the drills are good for players as old as High School/Big League age. This book would be particularly useful for Coaches returing to the game. The developments in the study of body mechanics have changed the way that a lot of basic skills are taught now, and this book includes up-to-date drills to reflect these changes. For example, batters are taught a much more compact and quick swing than I learned when I was a kid. This book is a good investment for the beginning OR experienced coach, or the parent who wants to see their kids excel in baseball - America's National Passtime.