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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 …
If you've been reading my blogs over the years, or attended any of my camps or lessons, you know there are a few key baseball strategy principles I teach all my players. Two of the big ones are: #1, For Pitchers: Strike 1 is the best pitch in baseball. #2, For Batters: Only judge your …
I don't watch a lot of TV - except for baseball of course - but one of the few shows in the past 10 years that I really loved was "The Office." In one of the later seasons of the show, the hilariously underachieving preppy paper salesman Andy Bernard says the following in one of …
I've been thinking a lot about Ferrari's lately (I'm sure I'm not the only one) as I dreamed about what I was going to do with my $1.4B Powerball win. (On a side note, does anybody know how many Ferrari's you can buy with negative $10 (my actual Powerball winnings???) :-) Aside from purchasing a …
Even though the weather hasn't quite cooperated with us this week, it is definitely baseball season here in Southern California! This is both good news and bad news. The good news is we have the longest Little League season in the country. The bad news is we have the longest Little League season in the …
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt I discovered this quote when I was 17 years …
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