Download or read book Life Lessons Learned From Little League written by Terrance C Luciani and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you trying to find your place in this world? Are you ready to take the next big step? Perhaps you are graduating high school or college or starting a new job and are facing uncertainty and fear that comes from the unknown. Funny, but the sport of baseball might help guide your way forward. Since its birth in the late 1800's, Baseball has evolved into one of the most popular sports in the world. It combines athleticism, strategy, and luck to produce some of the most exciting moments in competitive history. As a coach of youth baseball for several years, it was wonderful to see the kids develop into real ball players. Even better, spending all those hours at the field helped reveal something amazing. Hidden in the game, beyond the balls and strikes, were valuable secrets. Secrets that could change the way you think and live your life. Hiding in baseball is a treasure trove of life lessons to learn whether young or old; all designed to help us maximize our success. If you want to be an all-star in life, Life Lessons Learned from Little League (5L) is a humorous (hopefully) attempt to document the ways we can learn from baseball and apply the proper mindset to be a better person. Perfect for those special milestones in life or for the athlete in the family, 5L unlocks the simple things you can do to hit a personal home run. Batter up!
Download or read book Life Lessons from Little League Revisited written by Vincent Fortanasce and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly respected psychologist and member of Little League's Operating Board offers advice and observations to parents, players, and others involved in children's baseball.
Download or read book Little League Big Lessons written by Alex Marks and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Was More Than Just A Game... "Boys, be quick with the bat tonight and make sure you time his fastball when you are on deck because you know it is coming," Coach Wright instructed us as we sat nervously in the dugout, watching the Indians' star hurler warm-up, and waiting anxiously for the championship game to begin. It was an epic battle for city bragging rights that played out over two summer months, but the memories lasted much longer. For Alex Marks, the summer of 1991 brought with it his last season in Little League. At the time, it simply was the chance for he and his teammates to win one more title, while facing their greatest challenge. Little did he realize that afterward, his life would never be the same. Over two decades later, Marks' memories are as vibrant as the days themselves, and this memoir follows him reminiscing about a time when everything was simpler, when back doors were still left open, and when he was still blessed with the magic of childhood innocence. Readers, young and old, will enjoy this delightful journey chronicling two months of his adolescent life, where the lessons he learned and the character it forged still have relevance today.
Download or read book Not Just a Game written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaime Darden gives a real world view of the lessons that can be garnered by playing little league baseball. He has personally incorporated these important lessons in other areas of his life. Jaime applies these principles in school and in his relationships with both his peers and adults. If you participate in baseball or softball, you will walk away with valuable lessons from this book that will help place you on the path to achievement. If you are the parent or guardian of someone who is a player of one of these sports, this book could serve as an excellent way to exposing your child to these valuable life-changing concepts.
Download or read book Life Lessons from Little League written by Vincent Fortanasce and published by Image. This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice for parents and coaches on how to help children get the most out of Little League, including learning about right and wrong, perseverance, and sportsmanship
Download or read book 30 Life Lessons My Boys Learned from Baseball written by Andy Norwood and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using America's favorite pastime as an analogy, this collection of essays teaches children how to apply the lessons learned in baseball to everyday situations. This guide, filled with invaluable advice, enables adolescents to grow into adults while providing perspective on the sport and the complexities of life. The essays are derived from common themes in baseball but relate to dilemmas experienced off the field. The chapter "Some Days You're the Bat, Some Days You're the Ball" is an allusion to good days versus bad and reminds children that some rules have reasons, although they will probably question them. The sage guidance offers ways to control your emotions by channeling them into better efforts and tips to summon courage whether you are standing at the bat, undergoing surgery, or delivering a speech. The importance of paying attention to detail and respect for authority, along with advice on how to deal with adversity, is included in this indispensable compilation. Andy Norwood underscores the significance of teamwork, self-sacrifice, and the humility experienced after a loss. Each lesson is preceded by a quote from such celebrities as Jay Leno, Maya Angelou, and Albert Einstein. The work incorporates anecdotes from Major League Baseball and significant moments in the sport's history, making this book an enjoyable read for adults and their children.
Download or read book Forged of a Hotter Fire written by Bob Wheeler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From building fences to scoring touchdowns to making sales calls, the author shows you how everything in your life is a chance to show what you're made of, and these Texas tales of little league lessons and corporate challenges will show you how to excel the Lone Star way, with pride and determination. Reads like a backyard chat with that neighbor you always go to for advice, and is a must for any coach, teacher, parent, or employer. Wheeler spins yarns about everything from trips with Grandpa to boardroom fracases that will inspire you to win the game on the field, in the classroom, or in the courthouse, and you just might have enough fun reading it that you won't realize you're learning until you're done.
Download or read book Making It Home written by Teresa Strasser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward by an award-winning writer and TV personality. When her brother dies from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser has no one to mourn with but her irresponsible, cantankerous, trailerpark-dwelling father. He claims not to remember her chaotic childhood, but he’s a devoted grandpa, so as her son embarks on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and Nelson form a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the first base line. There are no therapeutically trained facilitators and no rules other than those dictated by the Little League of America, and the human heart. For Teresa and her father, the stages of grief are the draft, the regular season, and the playoffs. One season of baseball becomes the framework for a memoir about family, loss, and the fundamentals of baseball and life. They cheer, talk smack about other teams, scream at each other in the parking lot, and care way too much about Little League. Making It Home is a bracingly honest journey through grief, self-doubt, and anxiety armed with humor and optimism. After all, America’s pastime may be just a game, but it always leaves room for redemption, even at the bottom of the lineup.
Download or read book The Double Goal Coach written by Jim Thompson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Double-Goal Coach is filled with powerful coaching tools based on Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching Alliance. These strategies reflect the "best-practices" of elite coaches and the latest research in sports psychology.Hundreds of workshops have shaped these tools for maximum effectiveness and ease of use. The lessons and activities can be used in the very next practice to make sports fun and to get the best from players. The Double-Goal Coach provides the framework for coaches and parents to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth -- allowing young athletes to enjoy sports while learning valuable life lessons.
Download or read book Life Lessons From Soccer written by Dr. Vincent Fortanasce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parent-tested and approved by the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO), this indispensable book by a parent, coach, and doctor shows soccer moms, dads, and coaches how to encourage children to look beyond winning and to turn every game and practice into an opportunity to teach life lessons. Dr. Vincent Fortanasce applies his expertise in child development to guide parents and coaches on: Emphasizing fun over performance and morality over victory Understanding the way kids think and their capabilities at each developmental stage Controlling their own touchline behavior Instilling character, conscience, and courage in every player, regardless of talent In Life Lessons from Soccer, Vincent Fortanasce celebrates the enchantments of soccer as a learning ground for family values and life lessons -- and for becoming closer to your children on and off the field.
Download or read book Joy in Mudville written by Greg Mitchell and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baseball enthusiast's memoir drives home the reasons why Little League baseball is a uniquely American rite of passage.
Download or read book Play Ball the Story of Little League Baseball written by Lance Van Auken and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling History of Little League Baseball and the Little League Baseball World Series.
Download or read book A Kinder Gentler League written by Coach Chuck and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying the original vision of Carl Stotz, founder of the largest organized youth sports program in the world, involvement in these programs teach many life lessons while developing a lifetime love of the game by promoting citizenship, inclusion, discipline, teamwork, and physical well-being. These are the same lessons that transcend all walks of life and professions throughout the world. The lessons from these children’s stories are all based on true events. As with the stitches on the baseball that holds the cover together, the life lessons that are taught through this game stay with you for a lifetime. As you read these stories, you will recognize that these are not unique and take place every day by everyday community champions. It’s just what they do.
Download or read book The Pitch written by Paul Mead and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pitch is a simple and powerful mix of a "father to son," "coach to student," and "survival to wisdom" story that teaches you how to score more sales easily. The lessons learned on a baseball field teaches both young and old the lessons of life and sales mastery, combined in a way that reduces your stress and helps you say goodbye to the dreaded "I hate doing this" feeling.The main character Bob is a good guy but an average salesperson at best. He knows something has to change, but is unsure about what needs to change or how to go about it. Through a series of lessons he learns with his son Calvins's Little League baseball team, Bob discovers the key to becoming a master salesperson and, more importantly, he learns how to gain the freedom we all seek in life; to be happy and fulfilled.After reading this book you will know:* How to get the sales you want without feeling pushy or manipulating* Why you naturally resist selling and how to change it for good * How to take a more inspired approach to selling and goal achievement About the Authors - Paul Mead and Brian Doke are avid baseball fans and this book shares real stories taken from the Little League baseball fields as they coached Little Leaguers how to become better baseball players and even better people in life.
Download or read book Why Baseball Matters written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.
Download or read book Rocks Across the Pond written by Richard Verlander and published by Dementi Milestone Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the journey of a Baseball Parent - From Little League, to the World Series, and everything in-between. From the start in 1989 as parents of then 6 year old Justin Verlander and later his younger brother Ben, and with little background or experience in any type of organised sports ourselves, we had no idea about the turn our lives were about to take when a neighbour from across the street suggested that our son Justin should sign up for Little League Baseball. In our wildest dreams we never would have imagined that 20 years later we would be receiving the Little League Parents of the Year Award in Willamsport, Pennsylvania. This is an honour bestowed annually on the parents of major league stars that played Little League Baseball. After over two decades spent raising two sons who have experienced great success both on and off the field, the term Baseball is Life has become much more than a cliche for the Verlander family. We have been touched by many life changing events that we were fortunate to experience, but often unprepared to handle.Looking back we were often blessed to be surrounded by many people who helped us by providing valuable insight in making decisions and dealing with situations that enabled us to put our boys in the best possible atmosphere to grow and develop their potential; both as athletes and young men. Other times we were just lucky. It was not always clear, that's for sure. This book was written in hopes that other parents raising young athletes can gain something from our experience and look back as we have, knowing that Baseball is a great metaphor for life and that lessons learned last a lifetime.
Download or read book Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball written by Daniel Keller and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You volunteered to coach the local baseball team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball has the answers. In Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball, longtime coach Dan Keller shares his experiences and provides advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. From evaluating players’ skills and establishing realistic goals to using in-game coaching tips, it’s all here—the drills, the strategies, and most important, the fun! Develop your team’s fielding, catching, throwing, pitching, and hitting skills with the Survival Guide’s collection of the game’s best youth drills that young players can actually use. Best of all, you’ll be able to get the most out of every practice by following the ready-to-use practice plans. Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Baseball has everything you need for a rewarding and productive season.
