Product Description

This book is filled with the love of baseball. It aims to help coaches and parents teach game fundamentals as well as help players, ages four to ten develop their hitting skills. Whether you are a parent, mentor, or a new or experienced coach, you will find this book easy to read. It provides a common sense approach to coaching and managing a team while developing young players' ability to hit. This instructional book will improve young hitters' batting skills using a step by step approach including gripping the bat, taking the correct stance and developing an effective swing that deliver base hits. Also included are 18 proven hitting drills that can be used in every day practice. In Coaching Youth Baseball -Developing Hitters with Character you will learn from a coach and instructor with years of hands-on experience who care about the game and the children who play it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #443089 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
About the Author: Ken Siegler has participated in San Francisco Bay Area sports since his childhood while growing up on the Peninsula through college. He started coaching youth baseball in 2002 and became involved in multiple community and school sports programs serving in multiple roles. Today, Ken coaches and manages Little League baseball in Redwood City, California where he instructs and teaches a new generation of children the joy of playing baseball. The goal of the book is to exemplify good leadership principles and translate the basic hitting methods of the game in a simple and straight forward approach. Ken is married with two children. About Hitting Consultant: David Trujillo is a respected baseball instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is considered one of the best youth hitting specialists in the country and is also a personal fitness trainer for people of all ages, specializing in strength and conditioning for young athletes. David holds a management degree in Kinesiology from the University of Neveda, Las Vegas, where he was named by the American Baseball Coaches Association First Team NCAA Division 1 Baseball All-American. He was also named to the ABCA first Team. He hit .345 with a team high 18 home runs. In his junoir year David was a second-team All-Confernece first baseman. and set a Mountain West Conference record with a 29-game hitting streak. David was a star baseball and football player at Del Norte High School in New Mexico, where he lived with his parents and four brothers and one sister. Today, David runs his own baseball instruction business helping youth hitters all over the country.

Customer Reviews

Professional Baseball Player Endorsemet!!
Professional Baseball Player Endorsement, November 20, 2008
By Henry Wrigley (Belmont, CA USA) Professional Baseball Player - (MLB) Tampa Bay Devil Rays Organization


As a professional baseball player, I recommend for the beginning ball player a hitting instruction book that is well organized with a step-by-step breakdown of the latest hitting techniques. This book does just that. I have played baseball all my life and learning the right fundamentals is the key to any successful hitter. What I like most about Teaching Hitting Fundamentals is that it offers a straight forward practical advice for teaching young baseball players how to hit by using large well laid out pictures to go along with the instruction. The book is written in way that the beginner coach can understand and use. Ken Siegler has obviously based his teaching on hands-on experience by working directly with youth athletes.

One of the biggest challenges is making a connection with the young hitter. "Coaching Youth Baseball: Teaching Hitting Fundamentals" makes it easy to teach hitting by breaking down each element of the swing into simple steps so that a young athlete can learn without confusion. This book does an excellent job of breaking down stance and swing into seven understandable sections. The use of large color diagrams associated with each step surpass any of the other instruction books I have seen. Finally, Ken Siegler does a very good job of providing a list of drills to reinforce hitting fundamentals that will build a successful hitter. A very good starter book that can be used for years to come.

Beautifully designed book teaches good fundamentals
The authors have thought through every important aspect of coaching baseball to young kids, from developing a proper hitting stance to practice plans to interactions with parents to motivation. It's rare to find such excellent and instructive photography in this kind of book and kids really can learn a lot just by looking at the photographs and graphics. As a professional writer, I am also impressed with the tone and easy conversational style of the writing. As a parent of a daughter who played competitive softball for many years, I would highly recommend this book to families looking for a useful, complete, and easy-to-understand introduction to the basics.

A book for any coach
Teaching hitting fundamentals is a book appropriate both for beginning coaches where it would serve as guidelines, but also includes information for more experienced coaches, to aid and enhance their techniques.
Step by step, directions accompanied by excellent photographs offer a visual depiction of technique in a simply understood manner.

The book also offers your team a diversion from the regimented drills, something to maintain the player's interest and perhaps even hold a team together. Such activates include games and the like that are provided in the book following each drill as Extra Fun.

I recommend the book to coaches of any degree, for those just starting to coach, and for those who have coached for years.