| Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself
| Dream Big and Believe in YourselfIn a society that sends incredibly mixed identity messages, sports help preteen and teenage girls make the right choices. Athletic girls not only grow up to be healthier; they learn teamwork, gain self-confidence, and mature into society s leaders. Throw Like a Girl inspires, motivates, and answers questions about issues specific to today s female athletes. NCAA softball champion, two-time Olympian, and sports icon Jennie Finch offers sound advice on how to trans...More
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| Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills: Developing the Essential Skills in Every Player
| “Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.” --Michele Smith Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen. Straight from the Michele Smi...More
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| Sister Sluggers
| A tale of two sisters and one softball playing summer, "Sister Sluggers" presents itself as a girl’s sports story. But in reality, it’s the story of sibling rivalry and struggling with growing independence, influenced by close-knit family dynamics. Though it is set in the 1960’s, the tale is timeless. A humorous story that many children can relate to, it also has a good message, that there is personal consequence and responsibility for one’s actions, as minor as they are in this story.Fo...More
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| Coaching Tee Ball : The Baffled Parent's Guide
| Each spring, Tee-ball introduces millions of boys and girls to "America's pastime" --and introduces their parents to the joys (and nightmares) of coaching first-time players. Filled with expert advice and tips on creating order from chaos, Coaching Tee-Ball is the solution to every baffled parent's predicament, offering the new coach a total approach to keeping kids involved, motivated, and having fun.
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| Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully - 2nd Edition (Coaching Successfully Series)
| Field a winning fastpitch softball team year after year with the knowledge and insights of a coaching legend! Coaching Fastpitch Softball Successfully provides the guidance and technical expertise you need in order to build and maintain a competitive team, covering every facet of leading a squad on the field and developing a program off of it.Hall of Fame coach Kathy Veroni, who has won more than 1,250 fastpitch games in her career, and pitching expert Roanna Brazier share their insigh...More
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| The Softball Drill Book
| Packed with 175 drills straight from the practice sessions of the game's most successful programs, The Softball Drill Book will add variety to your practices and precision to your game-day performances. The comprehensive collection covers every aspect of the game. From warm-up to conditioning, throwing to hitting, bunting to base-running, you'll find drills to improve position skill and team execution - all from college coaches and programs that have won 13 NCAA Women's College World S...More
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| Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Softball (Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Sports)
| You volunteered to coach the softball team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Softball has the answers.Longtime coaches Robert and Tammy Benson share their experiences and provide advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. Establishing realistic goals, in-game coaching tips, drills, strategies, and fun—it's all here.Develop...More
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| Managing Little League (Little League Baseball Guides)
| Learn how to manage your youth team to success
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| Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball
| Here’s the “missing guide” for slowpitch softball. It’s not a fastpitch softball book adapted to slowpitch softball. It’s a comprehensive and original instructional guide to the unique sport of slowpitch. With Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball, you will learn basic to advanced offensive and defensive techniques. And the comprehensive coverage of slowpitch strategies and tactics, as well as expert advice on physical and psychological conditioning, will ensure you step o...More
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| Coaching Softball Technical & Tactical Skills
| Unlike other softball instruction books, Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills goes beyond teaching the technical basics and focuses on skills such as in-game decision making and detecting the strengths and weaknesses of opponents—the tactical skills—to prepare players for game day. This text is written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation's leading sport education provider, in conjunction with content experts Kirk Walker and Mona Stevens and endorse...More
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| Fastpitch Softball : The Windmill Pitcher
| "The Windmill Pitcher is the most comprehensive book on fastpitch pitching that I have read. It is an excellent reference for both coaches and pitchers." -- Ernie Parker, world-renowned pitching coach "I now have a comprehensive reference book to offer the people who contact me about pitching. The chapter on increasing ball speed is outstanding. There was an incredible need for this book and I thank Barry for writing it." -- Sherry Werner, PhD, lead researcher, International Olympic Comm...More
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| Practice Perfect Baseball
| Successful seasons don’t begin on opening day. They begin long before, in the cages, gym, locker room, and practice field. There, consistency, execution, and teamwork form the foundations of powerhouse programs and championship titles. While most coaches understand the importance of practice, far fewer have perfected it year after year, team after team. In Practice Perfect Baseball, the game’s premier collegiate coaches share their approaches, experiences, and philosophies on...More
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| Softball Fundamentals (Sports Fundamentals)
| Take the field and play ball! Softball Fundamentals will have you pitching, fielding, hitting, and baserunning like an experienced player in no time at all.Learn to execute each of the game's key skills properly through the concise instruction and accompanying photos presented for each technique. More than 48 gamelike drills will speed your skill learning and improve your performance. You'll also learn how to apply your newfound skills in game situations and gain an understanding of of...More
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| Softball Skills & Drills - 2nd Edition
| Looking for the ultimate book to help you learn and master softball’s essential skills? Look no further than the guide that has helped develop the game’s top players and most successful teams. This new edition of Softball Skills & Drills is completely updated with more skills, more drills and strategies, and more of the stellar instruction that have made it the top-selling title on the sport. Judi Garman, one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history, teams with Cal State Fulle...More
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| Girls' Softball Practice Plans: Ages 6-10
| A season’s worth of great girls’ softball practice plans!Coach Jerry Laird presents 20 hour-long practice plans full of girls’ softball drills, skills and coaching tips developed for beginner and intermediate softball players. Each practice plan focuses on a new skill and there are plenty of topics and team building activities throughout. The plans provide an entire season worth of essential softball skills – hitting, fielding, throwing, baserunning, and situational play – that young p...More
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| Fastpitch Fever - Deluxe Edition (Softball Star Series)
| Everyone thinks being a fourteen-year-old fastpitch softball player is nothing but fun and games. But ask Rachel Adams, and you'll learn otherwise. There are millions of problems to deal with, including demanding dads, grumpy coaches, and umpires who make terrible calls. But Rachel really complicates things for herself when she sneaks out with her teammates, meets some boys, and drinks alcohol. Just two weeks prior to the state's championship tournament, she is grounded, suspended from school, n...More
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| Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Softball
| The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Softball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date softball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round softball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results .No other softball book to date has been so well designed...More
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| Softball Skills & Drills
| Looking for the ultimate softball “how-to” book to help you learn and master the essential skills? Softball Skills & Drills covers all the fundamentals to build strong individual players and winning teams. Written by one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history, Softball Skills & Drills shows how to perform and improve hitting, bunting, slap hitting, baserunning, fielding, throwing, pitching, and catching skills. Author Judi Garman has more than 30 years of experience, more...More
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| The Softball Coaching Bible (The Coaching Bible Series)
| Now, for the first time in the sport of fastpitch softball, you can learn from successful coaches and apply their approaches to your own program. In The Softball Coaching Bible, 28 of the top U.S. coaches share their principles, insights, strategies, methods, and experiences to help you enhance the experience and development of your own athletes. Developed in cooperation with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA), The Softball Coaching Bible was written by the great...More
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| How She Thinks is How She Plays
| John Michael Kelly's latest book challenges parents and athlete's alike to look beyond traditional physical skills training and recognize the critical importance that mental skills training plays in a helping a young player become the very best she can be. If the game is 90% mental your athlete needs to recognize then master the vital mental skills necessary to succeed at such a difficult game as fastpitch softball. In this book John Michael Kelly lays out a detailed mental skills blueprint to h...More
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