Download or read book Girls Play to Win Softball written by Marty Gitlin and published by Norwood House Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step to the plate and swing for the fences! Softball has grown from a spontaneous game to serious business. What began as an indoor ballgame is now one of the most popular women’s sports. Stars like Joan Joyce and Jennie Finch helped it get there. Now players such as Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott are leading the charge. Grab a ball, bat, and glove and get ready to join them! The history, the rules, and the heroines: these nonfiction accounts of women's sports relate the interesting insights of each sport, including the rules, game play, and standout athletes. Girls looking for role models as well as the "hows and whys" of their favorite game will find the answers in these fresh, accessible titles. Part history, part biography, and part instruction, Girls Play to Win allows readers to access "everything they want to know" about the game. More than an introduction, this series takes what is likely an existing interest and allows the reader to delve deeper. Content consultants are real-world experts that include Olympic athletes and coaches. Library Media Connection's Editor's Choice

Download or read book Winning Softball for Girls written by Mark Gola and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews rules, recommends conditioning exercises, discusses positions, and explains offensive and defensive strategies.

Download or read book Girls Play Softball written by Amy B. Rogers and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being on a softball team teaches girls the value of teamwork, helps them become more confident, and allows them to grow into healthy and active women. Readers discover these and other important benefits of playing softball, while also learning the basic rules of the game. Informative main text is accompanied by eye-catching fact boxes and a detailed graphic organizer. Vivid photographs of softball players in action bring the excitement of the field to each page. Readers also explore the inspiring stories of famous softball players and successful teams, finding new role models as they learn about this popular sport.

Download or read book Girls Softball written by Brian Howell and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the court, on the field, on the course, or in the gym, female athletes are getting it done. This title highlights the stars who rule girls' softball today and the skills they've mastered on the way. You will find informative chapters that help readers better understand the skills of each sport, tips for improving those skills, a sport-specific diagram, a glossary, additional resources, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Download or read book Winning Softball for Girls written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews rules, recommends conditioning exercises, discusses positions, and explains offensive and defensive strategies.

Download or read book How to Play Softball for Girls written by Tony R Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching Girls Softball Do you love softball? Do you want to improve your softball skills? This is the book for you. Softball is a game of skill and hard work. Some players are blessed with skill, size or desire. This book will help you mentally and physically get ahead of the competition. This book breaks down fundamentals, but it also gives you instructions to help you be one step ahead of your peers or competitors. One of the most important parts of the game is being able to hit the ball. This book can help you with being a better softball player. This book includes: Rules of the game Tips for Beginners Basic Softball Drills History of the Game Softball Positions Hitting Techniques Social Skills and Softball Much more

Download or read book Softball for Boys and Girls Start Right and Play Well written by Bill Gutman and published by [Collingwood, Ont.] : Saunders Book. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go For It.

Download or read book Winning Softball for Girls written by Ernest Hill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get in the swing of softball with this new full-color guide! The popularity of softball is undeniable. An Olympic sport since 1996, it is one that can be enjoyed by players across a wide spectrum of ages and at any level of ability. According to the Amateur Softball Association, each year more than 1.2 million girls play fast-pitch softball, and more than 3.5 million players in total play the sport. "Winning Softball for Girls, Second Edition" is essential reading for anyone interested in learning to play softball and improve their game.

Download or read book Coaching Girls Ponytail Softball written by Danford Chamness and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written expressly for you who are coaching children in softball. We stress how to teach children this fun game and to have fun doing it. The book covers all facets of the game from “how to” throw a ball to strategies and tactics. When coaching children it should be a fun experience for everyone, for you, for the parents, and for the children. As a coach, we cover the teaching attitude and methods. We always keep in mind that the game is for the children and not for the adults. Winning isn't everything, but learning to play well and wanting to win is. We take the children from kindergarten through the eighth grades and break them into four categories. In each category we discuss the players needs and abilities, what they are capable of in both the physical and emotional sense, and their limitations. We have also defined the coach’s role, the parent’s role and the player’s role.

Download or read book Fastpitch written by Erica Westly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its humble beginnings in 1887, when it was invented in a Chicago boat club and played with a broomstick, to the rise in the 1940s and 1950s of professional-caliber company-sponsored teams that toured the country in style, softball's history is as diverse as it is fascinating. Though it's thought of today as a woman's sport, fastpitch softball's early years featured several male stars, such as the vaudeville-esque Eddie Feigner, whose signature move was striking out batters while blindfolded. But because softball was one of the only team sports that women were allowed to play competitively, it took on added importance for female athletes. This book chronicles its history.

Download or read book How to Play Softball for Girls written by Tony R Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love softball? Do you want to improve your softball skills? This is the book for you. Softball is a game of skill and hard work. Some players are blessed with skill, size or desire. This book will help you mentally and physically get ahead of the competition. This book breaks down fundamentals, but it also gives you instructions to help you be one step ahead of your peers or competitors. One of the most important parts of the game is being able to hit the ball. This book can help you with being a better softball player. This book includes: Rules of the game Tips for Beginners Basic Softball Drills History of the Game Softball Positions Hitting Techniques Social Skills and Softball Much more

Download or read book How to Play Softball for Girl written by Tony R Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love softball? Do you want to improve your softball skills? This is the book for you. Softball is a game of skill and hard work. Some players are blessed with skill, size or desire. This book will help you mentally and physically get ahead of the competition. This book breaks down fundamentals, but it also gives you instructions to help you be one step ahead of your peers or competitors. One of the most important parts of the game is being able to hit the ball. This book can help you with being a better softball player. This book includes: Rules of the game Tips for Beginners Basic Softball Drills History of the Game Softball Positions Hitting Techniques Social Skills and Softball Much more

Download or read book Softball written by Kieran Downs and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the bottom of the seventh, and the bases are loaded. The score is tied. Who will win? Young readers will love this home run title about softball! Leveled text covers the rules of the game and the gear needed to make plays. A champion spotlight highlights a professional’s career, while a field diagram and gear feature visually reinforce the text. Step up to bat and into the pages of this fun and informative title!

Download or read book Women in Softball written by A.W. Buckey and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the development of women’s softball, as well as the sport’s star players from past to present. Colorful spreads, fascinating sidebars, and athlete bios make this a thrilling read for young sports fans.

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 356 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 Playing to Win written by Alan G. Lafley and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.

Download or read book Softball 101 written by Ed Nielsen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to serve as a refresher for those who know the fundamentals, and to serve as a primer for those who don't. While intended to show slow-pitch softball players how to improve their game, this book will be helpful to fast-pitch softball and baseball players as well. After all, most of the principles in this book apply to any game played on a diamond, from Little League to high school and adult softball leagues to the Major Leagues. Most of us will encounter opposing players who can run faster, hit harder, and throw further than we can. But that doesn't mean we have to concede victory. Maybe we can run fast longer, hit more consistently, and throw more accurately. If you're willing to learn and invest in some off-field training, you can often overcome superior athletic skills possessed by the opposition. This book is intended to give you the tools needed to amplify your natural skills. I have played organized ball for over 60 years and, fortunately, I got off to a good start, thanks to fundamentals instilled in me from the very beginning. I began playing organized baseball in early grade school and continued playing summer baseball for the next 10 years under the tutelage of legendary Iowa coach George Engebretson. George coached baseball in the ultra-small town of Rembrandt (200 souls). Nearly every team his charges played against came from much larger towns, yet George's teams were nearly always victorious because he had his players so well grounded in fundamentals. Opposing teams were seldom so well taught. Thus, even when an opposing team had superior athletes, as was often the case, George's team was still dominant. I also played high school baseball for some excellent coaches. Those coaches had an easier job than most because George had already smoothed the rough edges of all the players. Let me hasten to add that those high school coaches taught us quite a bit, too, but they didn't have to start at square one, thanks to George. Coaches Hulsebus, Skogerboe, and Rath could focus on the more advanced nuances of the game and they did a wonderful job. Following high school, I didn't play organized ball while working my way through DeVry Technical Institute (now DeVry University) in Chicago. Once I had graduated there and settled into a career, I resumed playing ball, this time softball, and have played almost continuously ever since. In the 2013 National Senior Games, my team won gold medals in our age group; three teammates and I were selected as All-Americans (wish George was still around to see that!). I often see players who were never taught the proper fundamentals of playing ball or, if they were, the lessons never stuck. For every player I see fitting that description, I'd wager they cost their team about a run per game, on average. That could get very expensive if there is more than one of those players on a team, especially if their opponents have no such handicap. The first chapters of this book will describe the things that a player should do automatically while playing softball. Succeeding chapters will suggest things a player can do to improve his game when not on the field, things I believe will help any player enhance his natural abilities. Incidentally, please excuse my apparent sexism in this volume. I realize that females play softball and will read this book, too, hopefully. When you see masculine pronouns, I'm just trying to keep it simple. That makes it so much easier than using something like "he/she" or some other gender-neutral term. Rest assured that I'm directing my thoughts to both sexes. Softball is one athletic endeavor in which you can participate almost your entire life. With the growth of senior softball, there's really no reason to hang up your cleats until physical infirmities arise, but even those often can be forestalled with proper conditioning. I hope this book helps you enjoy even more the game we all love.