Download or read book Power Hitter written by M. G. Higgins and published by Darby Creek. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the team decides to play in a wood bat tournament, power hitter Sammy Perez gets stuck in a batting slump and faces the biggest challenge of his baseball career.
Download or read book Power Hitter written by Christine A. Forsyth and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connor might need a pinch runner, pinch catcher, and pinch thrower, but can he ever hit a baseball out of the park! So when Connor ends up staying with his baseball-loving relatives in Winnipeg for the summer, he allows his cousin to talk him into trying out for the baseball team. Connor isnt surprised when he doesnt make it, but he is disappointed. Its going to take some powerful coaching and more than a little help from his friends to get Connor on the team. [Fry reading level - 3.6]
Download or read book Power Hitter written by Christine A. Forsyth and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connor might need a pinch runner, pinch catcher, and pinch thrower, but can he ever hit a baseball out of the park! So when Connor ends up staying with his baseball-loving relatives in Winnipeg for the summer, he allows his cousin to talk him into trying out for the baseball team. Connor isnt surprised when he doesnt make it, but he is disappointed. Its going to take some powerful coaching and more than a little help from his friends to get Connor on the team.
Download or read book Power Hitter written by M. G. Higgins and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sammy Perez has to make it to the big leagues. After his teammate's career-ending injury, the Roadrunners decided to play in a wood bat tournament to protect their pitchers. And while Sammy used to be a hotheaded, hard-hitting, home-run machine, he's now stuck in the slump of his life. Sammy thinks the wood bats are causing the problem, but his dad suggests that maybe he's not strong enough. Is Sammy willing to break the law and sacrifice his health to get an edge by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Can Sammy break out of his slump in time to get noticed by major-league scouts?
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 266 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 Power Hitter written by Christine Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifter batter must learns to play the rest of the game.
Download or read book The Baseball Coaching Bible written by Jerry Kindall and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to coaching baseball with contributions from twenty-seven coaches who share their secrets to winning; and offers advice on building and managing a program, practice sessions, team strategies, player motivation and leadership, and making baseball fun.
Download or read book Ryan Howard written by Elijah Jude Gose and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young baseball fans will be riveted as they learn all the stats and accomplishments of one of the sports finest players, first baseman Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Download or read book Baseball s Ultimate Power written by Bill Jenkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tape measure home run is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Fully illustrated with photos of the players and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium's longest homers.
Download or read book Travel Team written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 Bestseller! Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court -- but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his own troubles, knows Danny isn't the only kid who was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this washed-up former player and a bunch of never-say-die kids prove that the heart simply cannot be measured. For fans of The Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, the Mighty Ducks, and Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestselling novels Heat, The Underdogs, and Million-Dollar Throw, here is a book that proves that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.
Download or read book Power Hitters written by Michael Brennan, Dr and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All players with 39 Home runs or more are listed by the season they accomplished this. Their statistics are listed as well as a numbering system to show how well they really hit. ( All the stats are there to make your own cards )
Download or read book Josh Gibson written by Hallie Murray and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Gibson, sometimes known as the "black Babe Ruth" for his skill at bat, was a power hitter and catcher in the Negro Leagues. He played on the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords between 1930 and 1946. Gibson died tragically from a brain tumor in 1947, just months before Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier. Though he was never able to join an MLB team due to discrimination, Gibson is often considered to have been one of the best catchers and sluggers in baseball's history.
Download or read book Baseball s Power Hitters written by Nathan Aaseng and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the careers of eight power hitters who are determined to set the ball sailing out of the ball park each time they come to bat. Includes Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Willie Stargell, Jim Rice, George Foster, Dave Kingman, Gorman Thomas and Dave Winfield.
Download or read book Meet Albert Pujols written by Ethan Edwards and published by Powerkids Press. This book was released on 2008-08-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life, career, and accomplishments of baseball player Albert Pujols.
Download or read book Volleyball Skills Drills written by Kinda Lenberg and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven of the nation's top coaches from the American Volleyball Coaches Association share the insight that helps build championship teams and Olympians. More than 90 drills reinforce instruction and help players advance.
Download or read book The Book written by and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball "by The Book."
Download or read book Frank Thomas written by Bill Gutman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the power-hitting baseball player, from his childhood in Georgia through his college days at Auburn University to his professional career with the Chicago White Sox.
