Download or read book My Softball Season written by Karleen Tauszik and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY SOFTBALL SEASON is a great journal for any softball player 8 years old and up. This special sports journal will help players record all the excitement of the months ahead. MY SOFTBALL SEASON includes enough journaling pages for: - pre-season practice. - in-season practices and games. - extra pages for tournaments. Plus, there are seven blank pages for photos, newspaper or program clippings, mementos, and notes about fun memories. Players will keep track of their skills, improvement, and contributions to each game while creating a unique keepsake of the season.
Download or read book The Softball Drill Book written by Kirk Walker and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with 175 drills straight from the practice sessions of the game's most successful programs, The Softball Drill Book will add variety to your practices and precision to your game-day performances. The comprehensive collection covers every aspect of the game. From warm-up to conditioning, throwing to hitting, bunting to base-running, you'll find drills to improve position skill and team execution—all from college coaches and programs that have won 13 NCAA Women's College World Series titles and dozens of NCAA regional tournament titles. Contributors include: Louie Berndt, Florida State Carol Bruggeman, Louisville Yvette Girouard, Louisiana State Michelle Gromacki, Cal State Fullerton Deanna Gumpf, Notre Dame Carol Hutchins, Michigan Kelly Inouye-Perez, UCLA Jay Miller, Mississippi State Jennifer Ogee, Nebraska Kim Sowder, Long Beach State Heather Tarr, Washington Michelle Venturella, Iowa Kirk Walker, Oregon State Margie Wright, Fresno State One look at the names above and it is clear, The Softball Drill Book is your blueprint for championship practices.
Download or read book Professor Baseball written by Edwin Amenta and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.
Download or read book Hitting with Torque written by Paul F. Petricca and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Petricca draws on his experience as a coach, player, blogger, and student of baseball and softball to share what hes learned about hitting in this essential guide for players seeking dramatic results at the plate. The author presents easy to understand hitting mechanics highlighting how the engineering concept of torque can be applied to hitting and is often the difference between a weak groundball or a long home run. Topics covered include understanding where hitting power really comes from and the importance of increasing bat speed through the fundamentals of a repeatable and powerful rotational swing. Hitters of all ages who adopt his eight hitting keys will enjoy a dramatic increase in bat speed and power almost immediately. Hitting with Torque is more than a set of hitting mechanics---its a mindset. Readers will be challenged to look past the worn-out hitting theories and myths that have been holding back hitters from reaching their full potential. With an open mind and practice, all hitters can unlock the power and consistency that is Hitting with Torque.
Download or read book My Thirteenth Season written by Kristi Roberts and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Girl germs," Billy Smythe sneered. It was a kindergarten taunt, just plain dumb, but his buddies snickered. Can Fran pull her game together before it's too late? Fran Cullers is having a horrible summer. She was a star player on the Little League team in her old town, so the Highwater Hardwares should be thrilled to have her-except that they hate girls. She can run rings around these guys, but they won't even give her a chance. So Fran sets out to destroy the Hardwares. But vengeance is a dangerous thing, as she soon finds out. Fran, who has already faced some terrible losses, is about to lose the most important thing in her life-unless her family and friends come to her aid when she needs them most.
Download or read book High Scoring Softball written by Ralph Weekly, Jr. and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain and simple, championship teams score runs. Their offenses are consistent, aggressive, opportunistic, and disciplined. They may manufacture runs or rely on the long ball, but they score early and often. And they win. High-Scoring Softball is the definitive guide for offensive play. The game’s most successful coaching duo, Ralph and Karen Weekly, share the approach that has shaped some of the game’s top scoring offenses and generated more than 1,700 career victories. Inside you’ll find detailed instruction, advice, and coaching tips on mastering offensive fundamentals, such as baserunning, bunting, slap hitting, and hitting for power and average. You’ll learn how to evaluate your team’s talents, tendencies, and strengths and create a potent, offensive attack. And a detailed analysis of common game situations provides you with strategies and advice for capitalizing on every opportunity. Defense may win games, but only if you score. With High-Scoring Softball you will score and you will win. It will change the way you play the game.
Download or read book My Softball Season written by Karleen Tauszik and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY SOFTBALL SEASON is a full-sized 8 1⁄2 x 11" sports journal that will help players record all the excitement of the months ahead. Each page has writing prompts to get players focused on the improvement of their skills and their contributions to each game. MY SOFTBALL SEASON includes enough journaling pages for pre-season practice and in-season practices and games. Plus, there are extra pages for tournaments.There are also seven blank pages at the end for photos, statistics, newspaper or program clippings, mementos, or notes about fun memories. This unique journal helps kids:?Focus on the coach's priorities each week.?Improve as they track their performance.?Remember their season, their contributions, and all of their fun memories. And they'll be creating a unique keepsake of the season that they'll treasure for years to come! In addition, MY SOFTBALL SEASON provides a fun way for kids to develop skills in writing, composition, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, sentence construction, and handwriting. (Best for ages 8 and up.)Softball season will come and go in a blur. Get MY SOFTBALL SEASON today so the kids you love can record and remember all the thrills and achievements of the season. MY SEASON journals are also available for baseball, soccer, football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, and cheerleading.
Download or read book Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills written by American Sport Education Program and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coaching Softball Technical and Tactical Skills" goes beyond technical skills such as catching and hitting to the tactical skills that will help your players make smart in-game decisions that build a winning team. Endorsed by the American Fastpitch Coaches Association, this is "the" resource for coaching softball at the high school level.
Download or read book Thank You written by Michael Hughes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three years, I have been on a journey that has changed my life in the most powerful way. I have experienced all the medical challenges that come and go with cancer diagnoses and the little day-to-day challenges with life. I have been able to stand and to move through this journey with the guidance of family and friends and the mercy of God in my life. This work has enabled me to be strengthened by the challenges and faith that I have been afforded to have and witness. For those people who have faced this challenge in their lives and have the courage to fight, I wish you all God’s love and care. For those people who are new to a cancer challenge, I pray that this book will be an enlightenment to you and help you to face whatever comes to you on your journey. This book is my story, and it is one of my many stories. My desire is that it will comfort the reader to know that God is still in control.
Download or read book Swinging 73 written by Matthew Silverman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending. Stuck in a rut, baseball was dying. Then Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, a second-division club with wife-swapping pitchers, leaving the House That Ruth Built not with a slam but a simper. He vowed not to interfere—before soon changing his mind. Across town, Tom Seaver led the Mets’ stellar pitching line-up, and iconic outfielder Willie Mays was preparing to say goodbye. For months, the Mets, under Yogi Berra, couldn’t get it right. Meanwhile, the A’s were breaking a ban on facial hair while maverick owner Charlie Finley was fighting to keep them underpaid. But beneath the muttonchops and mayhem, lay another world. Elvis commanded a larger audience than the Apollo landings. A Dodge Dart cost $2,800, gas was a quarter per gallon. A fiscal crisis loomed; Vietnam had ended, the vice president resigned, and Watergate had taken over. It was one of the most exciting years in the game’s history, the first with the designated hitter and the last before arbitration and free agency. The two World Series opponents went head-to-head above the baby steps of a dynasty that soon dwarfed both league champions. It was a turbulent time for the country and the game, neither of which would ever be the same again.
Download or read book My Softball Season Spiral Bound written by Karleen Tauszik and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY SOFTBALL SEASON is a full-sized 8 1⁄2 x 11" sports journal that will help players record all the excitement of the months ahead. Each page has writing prompts to get players focused on the improvement of their skills and their contributions to each game. MY SOFTBALL SEASON includes enough journaling pages for pre-season practice and in-season practices and games. Plus, there are extra pages for tournaments.There are also seven blank pages at the end for photos, statistics, newspaper or program clippings, mementos, or notes about fun memories. This unique journal helps kids:?Focus on the coach's priorities each week.?Improve as they track their performance.?Remember their season, their contributions, and all of their fun memories. And they'll be creating a unique keepsake of the season that they'll treasure for years to come! In addition, MY SOFTBALL SEASON provides a fun way for kids to develop skills in writing, composition, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, sentence construction, and handwriting. (Best for ages 8 and up.)Softball season will come and go in a blur. Get MY SOFTBALL SEASON today so the kids you love can record and remember all the thrills and achievements of the season. MY SEASON journals are also available for baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, football, volleyball and cheerleading.
Download or read book Coach s Guide to Game Winning Softball Drills written by Michele Smith and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.” --Michele Smith Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen. Straight from the Michele Smith Gold Camps and Clinics, these drills are designed to give you all the tools you need to teach the entire range of offensive and defensive softball skills. With Michele's expert guidance and instruction, you'll coach your players to: Master the mechanics of footwork for fielding with hustle Swing for the fences and hit the fastest pitches Catch the ball proactively and throw it quickly and accurately to its target Defend the infield and outfield with speed and confidence Run the bases swiftly and strategically Refine fast-pitch skills so they can windmill like Michele And much more
Download or read book Am I My Brother S Keeper written by Andrew Stafford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we responsible for the well-being of our neighbors and our friends and family? Obeying the command of God is detrimental in our efforts to reap, eternal life. I have attempted to share my efforts from personal experiences through the power of the Holy Spirit guiding my actions. The Psalm, in 37:25, says, I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread (NKJV). The author, Andrew Earl Stafford, took years to chronicle his experiences for over seventy years as he interprets how the Holy Spirit guided him to be a leader to his family, community, and nation in sharing the presence of God in our everyday lives. Andrew became aware of the presence of God at an early age as he observed how God protected and provided for his mother, Maezell, who in the 1940s, turned down welfare because she viewed it as a trap to create dependence, rather than an opportunity to succeed. Four boys and one girl to raise, Maezell was told by the welfare department that she could not own a car because it was considered a luxury. Well, Maezells response was that, she needed a car to transport her children to school, besides, she worked at a laundry until she retired. Their father, Clifford, after leaving the navy, had no choice but to try and earn a living playing baseball in the, Old Negro Baseball Leagues. His absence from the family created a situation of divorce. Though they face possible economic challenges, Maezells goal was to make sure all of her children finished high school. They all did, and most with honors and all with perfect attendances. Andrews book covers his struggles in poverty, racism, family, society, and in the realm of spiritual warfare. Although you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, theres no reason to fear evil. Andrew learned firsthand how God will empower each of us to make this world a better place to live if we are willing to wait on him.
Download or read book Right Off the Bat written by Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking over the legends and stars of both sports, explaining the rules, complete with glossary, Right Off the Bat is a fine assortment of knowledge, very much recommended for any curious sports fan."—Midwest Book Review It's been said that baseball and cricket are two sports divided by a common language. Both employ bats, balls, innings, and umpires. Fans of both steep themselves in statistics, revel in nostalgia, and toss around baffling jargon. In Right Off the Bat, baseball nut Evander Lomke and cricket buff Martin Rowe explain "their" sport—and their love of it—to the other sport's fans. You'll come away finding yourself as fascinated by legbreaks and inswingers as you are by knuckleballs and sliders (or vice versa). Are you a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan who nevertheless harbors a nagging doubt as to whether Babe Ruth was, in fact, the greatest athlete ever to swing a bat? When you think of cricket, is what comes to mind stuffy Victorians standing around in a field, twirling their mustaches and saying silly things like "Howzat" or "googly"? Or are you a staunch cricket fan who sometimes wonders whether a screwball is really as difficult to execute as a doosra? Do you ask yourself where the thrill is in watching a ball sail 400 feet over a wall and just past the outstretched fingers of a fielder wearing a glove (and all for a paltry one run)? Well, step right up and take a seat—you've got a lot to learn (for example, the very first international cricket match was played in the United States). And Right Off the Bat is just the book for you.
Download or read book For the Love of Baseball written by Lee Gutkind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Fatsis sends his “stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect” glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that the baseball cap may be the most universal article of clothing ever designed. Roger Angell considers why it is that pitchers are “so much livelier and more garrulous than hitters.” George Plimpton reflects on the slow demotion of aging or slumping players from pitcher to first base, to the outfield. United by the authors’ fervent love of the game, each chapter in this book reminds us of the unique role baseball plays in our national history and collective imagination. In addition to the authors mentioned above, the lineup includes: • Kevin Baker • Jeff Greenfield • Katherine A. Powers • Michael Shapiro • John Thorn • Sean Wilentz • And more! Published previously as Anatomy of Baseball and Great Baseball Stories, this wide-ranging collection now includes pieces by A. Bartlett Giamatti, Gay Talese, Matthew McGough, and George Vecsey. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book In God s Hands written by Michael David Hughes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have all faced challenges in life. This book is a look into my life and my continued cancer journey. In the past few years, I have been challenged with the death of my mother, and cancer diagnosis of my close friend. In God's Hands is a book written as a continuation of Elevation by Grace a book that was written in 2020. This is our story of how two friends have supported each other in a time of need. The blessing is that God has placed his hands on our lives to endure challenges to fight through adversity in the fight for life. Look inside my world and I pray that you are awaken.
Download or read book Defy the Odds written by E. Lawrence and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever found yourself questioning everything youd previously thought to be true? Have you ever wondered God, where are you? or God, did you intend for this to happen? Have you ever wrestled with being comfortable in your own skin? Has fearfully and wonderfully made ever seemed great for others, but not accurate when it comes to you? Have you ever wondered if youre too far gone? Or if Gods grace is enough for you? After all, how much can grace really cover? Grab a front-row seat and witness one womans struggle as she battles a fully unleashed devil. In the darkness of her doubt and fear, she searches for Gods will and questions the scope of His grace.
