"Must Haves"
For Training Players
5. A Place To Play Wall Ball
Constant and repetitve practice of the core skills needed for being a baseball player; THROWING and CATCHING
4. A Rubber Baseball
See above!
3. Plastic Practice Balls
AKA Wiffle Balls(R). Used to practice timing and safe for around the house.
No broken windows!
2. Mini Practice Balls
Improve hand/eye coordination with
"small ball".
1. A Batting Tee
THE # 1 tool for developing young hitters!
Reach 
Teach Inspire
My response?
Respectfully....SO WHAT!
As a coach, we must never forget our jobs should be first and foremost about PLAYER DEVELOPMENT. The lessons learned through losing can some times far out weigh those learned through winning. Yes....you read that correctly!
I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't keep score or that as coaches we shouldn't emphasize winning or even that I think losing is a great thing.
A struggling team gives a coach the opportunity to break down WHY the team struggled, make the adjustments and move forward. That's an opportunity to teach that baseball is one of the few sports where a player is unsuccessful 2 out of 3 attempts and can still be deemed a success! This is also an opportunity to teach that "maybe today, those guys on the other side were just a little better than we were....and we'll get'em next time".
What impression are you making on your team?
Many of you are coaching and leading young men and women every Saturday morning at a ballpark somewhere. You could be a volunteer assistant or you could be the manager of the team.
That's an opportunity much larger than simply filling out a lineup card and shouting at an umpire! YOU are molding and shaping young minds and bodies. Our future ball players? Yes. But also our future mothers, fathers, teachers, preachers, judges, iron workers, carpenters, contractors, politicians.......and coaches!
Teach them sportsmanship and how to be a good teammate.
Show them how to be on time for practice and games and show them that arguing with an umpire is for coaches ONLY and do so without making a spectacle out of yourself. Umpires appreciate a quiet and non confrontational approach. They really want to get the call right...work with them.
INSPIRE!
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