Teach your kid baseball.
Practical help for the parents of young baseball players.
( How to play baseball for kids. )
TeachYourKidBaseball.com
"Encouragement is the basis of all teaching."
Updated: January 28, 2009
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Introduction.
Why play organized sports?
Why play a team sport?
Why play baseball?
It's not like the Major Leagues.
How youth baseball leagues are organized.
It's not a democracy.
The manager.
The natural athlete.
The "Klutz."
The chubby kid and the short kid.
The "sharp" kid and the "slow" kid.
The "Lefty."
Handicapped baseball players.
The ballplayer who can hit.
Training the batter.
Training the pitcher.
Training the catcher.
Training the fielders.
Stealing bases.
Running the bases.
For the single parent.
For former athletes.
Correcting your own child.
The browbeaten ballplayer.
Weeding out weak players.
When the umpire is a kid, too.
For overly competitive leagues.
Winning and losing.
Scholarships.
Summary of safety tips:
* Never slide head first into home.
* Don't have more than one ball in play during fielding practice.
* Always call for a fly ball: "I've got it!" and respond: "Take it Billy!"
* Catchers: keep your free hand in a fist, with the thumb tucked in.
* You can get badly "beaned" in a run-down, so keep the helmet on when running the bases.
Introduction.
This article was prepared by an experienced
manager of youth league baseball teams, who prefers to remain anonymous.
Most of the information
that is presented here about how to play baseball for kids will be self-evident,
although the reader may not have thought of it before.
The rest is easily verified. If your team's manager disagrees
with something that appears here, do it your team manager's way.
Why play organized sports?
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