The baseball drill book

Offers 198 activities for baseball players' training. Covers drills for warm-up, throwing, catching, base running, hitting, pitching, and fielding.

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 are among the greats who present their best practice drills and insights for improving these skills:

-Conditioning and warm-up

-Throwing and catching

-Base running and sliding

-Hitting and bunting

-Pitching

-Fielding

-Offensive and defensive tactics Each drill follows a concise format. First, the primary skill or tactic to be enhanced is identified, then procedure and setup details are provided. Illustrations for proper technique are also included, followed by coaching insight to help you sharpen players' understanding of the game's finer points. Glean tactical advice such as how to get a teammate home from third when a key run is needed and how to “sit on” certain pitches while at the plate. Drill modifications are included so that each drill can be modified to fit specific needs.

Additional chapters explain how to effectively and efficiently incorporate drills in practice sessions and to simulate game situations. In all, The Baseball Drill Book provides the essential link between initial skill learning and winning performance on the diamond.

Content: pt. I. Effective applications. Incorporating drills into practices / Bob Bennett ; Performing and conducting drills / Bob Bennett ; Making drills gamelike / Bob Bennett -- pt. II. Physical trainingj. Conditioning drills / Ed Cheff and Bruce Madsen ; Warm-up drills / John Savage -- pt. III. Fundamental skills. Catching drills / Jack Smitheran ; Throwing drills / Jim Brownlee ; Sliding drills / Bob Warn -- pt. IV. Offensive skills. Hitting drills / Rick Jones and Mark Kingston ; Bunting drills / Gordon Gillespie ; Base-running drills / Rich Alday -- pt. V. Defensive skills. Infield drills / Sonny Pittaro ; Outfield drills / Jim Wells ; Catcher drills / Pete Dunn ; Pitcher drills / Steve Smith -- pt. VI. Team tactics. Offensive team drills / Gene Stephenson and Jim Dimick ; Defensive team drills / Ray Tanner ; Game situation drills / Bob Todd and Bob Bennett. Abstract: Successful baseball coaches such as Roy Tanner, Gordie Gillespie, Ed Cheff and Gene Stephenson team up with the ABCA to share drills and practice activities for improving specific areas of individual and team performance. Read more... Successful baseball coaches, such as Roy Tanner, Gordie Gillespie, Ed Cheff, and Gene Stephenson, team up with the ABCA to share drills to improve specific areas of individual team performance. 30 photos