Coaching Pitchers - 3rd Edition
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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 clear illustrations. Practice drills and training aids provide supportive tools to get the job done. From mental attitude to managing a bullpen, Coaching Pitchers is packed with insights you need to help your pitchers shut down even the most formidable opponents. Coaching Pitchers offers solid, proven advice from one of the college game's best pitching coaches. Currently the head baseball coach at James Madison University, Spanky McFarland has coached 55 players on their way to the big leagues (including Kevin Brown of the Los Angeles Dodgers). Now McFarland delivers in book form the same instruction that took these players to the top.
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
5 ratings
Fundamentaly sound pitching instruction!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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!
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
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.
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