BOOKS & COACHING MATERIALS
Softball Skills & Drills by Judi Garman $20.00
Looking for the ultimate softball “how-to” book to help you
learn and master the essential skills? Softball Skills & Drills
covers all the fundamentals to build strong individual players and winning
teams. Written by one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history, Softball
Skills & Drills shows how to perform and improve hitting, bunting, slap
hitting, baserunning, fielding, throwing, pitching, and catching skills.
Author Judi Garman has more than 30 years of experience, more than 1,100
victories, and a spot in the National Softball Coaches Association Hall of
Fame. She has proven that she has what it takes to win consistently. Now,
Garman shares her formula for developing the fundamentals by packing 170
drills, 142 photos, and 49 illustrations into Softball Skills & Drills.
Get complete details on every facet of the game:
• Power hitting techniques
• Bunting and slap hitting techniques
• Baserunning techniques
• Pitching and catching techniques
• Position-specific fielding techniques
• Offensive and defensive tactics
The Softball Drill Book Edited by Kirk Walker
(Oregon State) $20.00
You get to pick from over 175 drills to help players in
every facet of the game. Learn to use drills effectively and apply what you
learn to all the fundamentals of catching, throwing, base running, hitting,
bunting, and slap hitting, plus use position-specific drills and tactical
offensive and defensive drills to improve the individuals and the team.
Assisting Walker in writing sections of this book were such
top college coaches as Jay Miller (Mississippi State), Carol Hutchins
(Michigan), Kelly Inouye-Perez (UCLA), Margie Wright (Fresno State), Yvette
Girouard (LSU), Deanna Gumpf (Notre Dame), Heather Tarr (Washington), Michelle
Gromacki (Cal State Fullerton) and other proven winners.
The Softball Pitching Edge by Cheri Kempf
$20.00
If you want to learn about pitching from A to Z, this is a
source of extraordinary material written by on of the top names in the game.
You get excellent information and clear photos and diagrams related to
technique, pitch selection, speed, location, as well as learning how to work
with the catcher, practice routines and game preparation, mental skills,
conditioning, and communication.
Cheri has all the credentials (3 – time All American,
National Champion, National Tournament MVP, member of World Cup Champions, NAIA
Hall of Fame, TV analyst, Commissioner of pro league, and owner of Club K since
1991), plus a distinct ability to make pitching understandable and doable.
Mental Toughness by Karl Kuehl, John Kuehl,
& Casey Tefertiller $20.00
Written by former MLB manager Karl Kuehl, who spent much of
the 2008 season helping the Arizona State University softball team that won the
NCAA College World Series, this book is filled with material that will make the
difference for you in performance. Without the addition of proper mental
skills, an opposing team can control your physical skills and your achievement
will take a nosedive. Without practical ways to learn and use these mental
skills in game conditions, your skills have little value. As he worked with
professional baseball players and elite softball players, Karl Kuehl learned
the value of these skills and drills to make them usable. The material is
extremely valuable to all open-minded softball coaches and players who want to
find a way to gain an edge.
The book is accompanied by an outstanding DVD entitled Baseball’s
Mental Fundamentals ($30.00). The Kuehls conduct some wonderful
interviews and get inside the minds of top Major League players. You will get
tremendous benefits from the program as it reveals how the best players use
attitude to their advantage, build confidence, improve focus, and properly
prepare to play under game conditions.
The Softball Coaching Bible by
selected coaches $22.00
Now you can learn from successful coaches and apply
their approaches to your own program. In The Softball Coaching Bible, 28
of the top U.S. coaches share their principles, insights, strategies, methods,
and experiences to help you enhance the experience and development of your own
athletes.
Developed in cooperation with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association
(NFCA), The Softball Coaching Bible was written by the greatest assembly
of college and high school softball coaches ever. The text provides the finer
points of coaching softball, presented in an engaging manner that makes the
contents easy to apply to your own ball club. The topics range from teaching the
best skills and drills to subjects rarely written about, such as developing
responsible athletes and building character and loyalty in players.
Find out how Mike Candrea develops productive hitters at the University of
Arizona, and follow the advice of Fresno State University’s Margie Wright for
competing in tournaments and playoffs. This landmark work covers all the bases,
from recruiting players to attracting fans. The Softball Coaching Bible
also contains information on professional development: moving through the
coaching ranks, making use of other coaches and professional organizations,
avoiding coaching burnout, and attending and running camps and clinics. Chapter
after chapter, this book provides the game plan for building a winning program.
Improved Hitting for Girls Softball: The Physical & Mental
Mechanics for a Controlled Explosion by Bobby Simpson. Published
by Higher Ground. $20.00
Hitting is a key to success and this book makes it easier for you teach
hitting, to others or to yourself. The thorough, understandable explanations of
the physical and mental aspects make it easier for you to explain it, practice
it, or use it in the game. Simpson has taught hitting in the USA, Canada, and
Europe, working with professional athletes, Olympians, and thousands of players
and coaches of all types, helping them to improve their skills and become
better hitters. You can now use these same methods to create consistent
controlled explosions and become a more successful hitter.
"Bobby Simpson is one of the top
instructors in the game of softball. He is an excellent communicator and he
will teach you the fundamentals of hitting in a clear and concise manner"-
Sue Enquist, Head Coach, UCLA, Multiple NCAA Champions
"Bobby is a fantastic clinician. I enjoy picking his brain every chance I
can about hitting strategies and mechanics. He has helped me tremendously with
the physical and mental aspects familiar with the art of hitting."- Dionna
Harris, 1996 USA Gold Medal Olympic Team
"Finding Higher Ground and Bobby
Simpson was like being thrown a life jacket in a sea of misconceptions and
untruths. My team went from one that all the other teams loved to play and beat
up on to one that was feared and dreaded." - Clark Sutley,
Summer Coach, Indiana
52-Week Baseball Training by Gene Coleman $20.00
GREAT BOOK FOR SOFTBALL. If you
want strength, agility, speed, quickness, cardiovascular fitness, and the
ability to make use of skills, then this is the book for softball and baseball.
Written by the veteran trainer for the Houston Astros, it is a terrific source
for valuable information. Nolan Ryan, Hall of Famer, says, "Working with
Gene was a turning point in my career" and his "knowledge of
conditioning, mechanics, and the mental aspects of preparing...are
unrivaled." Already being used by many college softball and baseball
programs.
BOOK & CD: A Softball Coaches Tool Kit (SECOND
EDITION) by Pete Sprenkle $22.00
Excellent resource book for coaches at all levels. Written by Pete
Sprenkle, a veteran travel team and high school coach, the book also includes a
CD with 200+ tools that you can customize on your computer so that it fits your
personal situation. A very thorough compilation of drills, forms, letters,
charts, schedules, assessment and evaluation tools, motivational thoughts, tips
for skills, sample practices, communication tips, exams, team handbook, and
numerous other valuable items.
The Complete Book Of Pitching by Cindy Bristow 30.00
This item provides a detailed look at all the elements of fastpitch
pitching for the player or coach, the beginner or experienced veteran. Cindy
covers everything from the pitching motion, to the pitches, different methods
for practicing, to what to say to your pitcher on the mound. It's all in there.
Softball Strategies, Coverages, Signals, & Charts by Cindy Bristow $20.00
Just what the title says. Offensive strategies and plays, making a
lineup, defensive strategies and plays, coverage for bunts, steals, slaps, and
everything imaginable, signal systems, and all kinds of charts along with help
in deciding the why, when, and how of using them. This is a one of a kind book
that every coach needs.
A Coach’s Guide To Creating Team Chemistry: Tips On Coaching
Female Athletes by Cindy
Bristow $20.00
This item contains drills, exercises, and examples to help develop team
and individual confidence, unity, motivation, and competitiveness. Terrific
sections on coaching females, confidence, competitiveness, fear, frustration,
patience. individualism, focus, team unity, motivation, and fun. Everyone needs
this one. It is slap full of usable stuff.
Getting Better Every Day (1993-1997) by Bobby
Simpson. Published by Higher Ground. $10.00
Since 1993, we have been producing either printed or electronic
newsletters designed to help you in softball and in life. Now, at the request
of a number of people, we have combined the best of these and are making that
product available to you. Our first edition is Getting Better Every Day
(1993-1997). It gives you the most popular articles, tips for improving as a coach
or player, drills, thoughts, and just a bunch of very good stuff that was part
of the printed MVP newsletters that we distributed during that five-year
period. If you want to improve as a coach, a player, a parent, or just develop
better life skills, this booklet is for you.
Getting Better Every Day (1998-2001) by Bobby
Simpson. Published by Higher Ground. $10.00
The second volume of The Best of Getting Better Every Day
again captures the finest items from our very popular newsletter. During these
years (1998-2001), we changed from a printed format to an e-mail version,
allowing us to provide more material, and send these newsletters more than
twice as often. In the second volume, you will again receive the most popular
columns, tips for improving as a coach or player, drills, thoughts, and just a
bunch of very good stuff that was part of the newsletters that we distributed
during the four-year period. You will find numerous items that will allow YOU
to improve as a coach, a player, a parent, or just develop better life skills.
Inside UCLA Softball by Sue Enquist $10.00
The notes, charts, and drills used by the 1999 NCAA Champions. Included
are sections on offense, team offense, mental training, team bonding, defense,
team defense, and practice planning. Produced by Sue for use and sale at
clinics. Includes UCLA templates for offense, defense, evaluation, practice,
and strategy.
Teaching Baseball: Fundamentals, Techniques, & Strategies
by Jack Stallings. $25.00
This is an excellent book for baseball or softball by a man
considered by many to have been the best instructor anywhere. It contains
terrific information on every aspect of the game and could very well be the one
best book for a softball or baseball coach to have. Stallings conducted clinics
all over the world, sent nearly 100 players on to major league baseball, and
teaches in a way that makes the light not just come on, but glow brightly.
Psychology of Coaching and Playing Sports by Jack
Stallings $24.00
This one is full of meat, one where you underline sentence after
sentence. Coach Stallings is a master practitioner of the elements of
psychology, so necessary if you want the physical parts to work right. He makes
it make sense so that you can use it.
Heads Up Baseball by Ken Ravizza $15.00
This is definitely an excellent resource for the coach that really wants
to help softball or baseball players keep their head in the
game. Ken has worked with the USA Olympic softball team, California Angels, LA
Dodgers, Cal State Fullerton softball and baseball teams, USA Olympic baseball
team, and spoken at many national and international softball and baseball
clinics. This is must reading for the serious coach or player.
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