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I've written about what "being competitive" means to me (you can read a past blog about it by clicking here), and if you watched Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose battle on the back 9 at The Masters over the weekend, then you saw exactly what I'm talking about. Throughout the back and forth of the …
I think it's likely that by now you've seen this video, but if not, it's worth 2 minutes of your day): A few things popped into my mind after I watched it. First, I realized how lucky I am personally to coach players at the Little League level where selfish, me-first attitudes are much less …
I've written quite a bit about the mental side of hitting in youth baseball (please feel free to browse through old blogs), but today I want to talk about important things parents and coaches can do to make sure ballplayers have an attitude at the plate that gives them the best chance of success. First, …
I ran the “on the field” portion of tryouts on Saturday at RHLL which means that over the course of roughly 6 hours, I threw close to 1000 batting practice pitches to players age 7-12. There were giant 12 year olds preparing for their final season of Little League, 7 year olds who were participating …
With school starting today, I thought I would spend a few minutes talking about academics. There's most likely nothing I can say about the importance of getting after it in the classroom that your son hasn't heard already from you, but I did come across this interesting statistic last week: As the chart above shows, …
What I Learned at Spring Training that I Still use Today in High School Baseball By John Zuercher Hi, my name is John Zuercher, better known as Coach JZ around camp. I just finished my sophomore year of high school at Peninsula High, where I played on the Junior Varsity baseball team. I have played …
Summer Baseball Camp is off to an amazing start! Please enjoy a few shots of the action from the first 2 weeks of camp here and you can follow the fun daily by finding @SpringTrainingBaseballCamp on Instagram! I hope to see you on the field this summer! - DS
After giving close to 1,200 lessons and running several weeks of camp since the 1st of the year, I want to take a minute to look back on the Little League season before we turn our attention to Summer Camp and beyond. Here's my hope for every kid who played ball this Spring: 1) That …
One of the things I hear from parents on a very regular basis is that they are worried their son doesn't throw hard enough to pitch. The fallacy that you have to throw hard in order to pitch is something I would like to address. There are many reasons why throwing hard is not a …
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