Teaching Baseball Fundamentals

Baseball fundamentals are essential to a successful team and your ability to teach those baseball skills is going to be a major factor on how fast your players learn. As a coach you want to provide the best baseball instruction you possibly can. We will go into the instructions later, but let's first set up a good coaching philosophy.

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When meeting your players for the first time set up good guidelines for them to follow. I had three rules:

1. Always give your best effort.

2. Never bad mouth a coach or a teammate.

3. The most important rule: Have Fun!

Remember you are not just a baseball coach, you are also a role model. The players not only are going to look at you for guidance and instruction, but they also will be watching and listening to how you react to every situation. Many baseball players attribute a large portion of their success in life to the things they learned on the baseball field and from their coaches. The lessons they learned are not just about fielding grounders or how to hit a baseball, but are about teamwork, work ethic and having a positive attitude.These skills not only helped them on the baseball field but helped them in life.

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Whether you are the manager, a coach or a parent helping your child, you must show patience, be supportive and have a positive attitude. The message will never get across if they are not having fun and think of the great game of baseball as a chore

Getting their first baseball glove or baseball bat is an experience a child will never forget. Remember the most important rule of all is to " Have Fun. "

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Some sound advise I followed included making sure players got to play multiple positions and were provided good baseball instruction on how to play those positions. Most young players that have to play in the outfield all year long are going to get bored. Every ball player had a job to do on every play. In the outfield when the ball was in play I taught my ballplayers to back up the base they were behind for wild throws. My right fielder who didn't have the greatest talent but would run through a brick wall for you, came running in to back up first base on a throw from third base. The throw was over the first baseman's head, hit the fence and was headed to right field. The runner not thinking twice took off towards second base, our little right fielder picked up the overthrow and threw him out at second. I've never seen a happier ballplayer and a more proud coach all because hustle and love for the game.

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Through out this article I tried to focus on how to set up a team concept so that everyone from the coach, players and parents understand that its about the kids. Being part of a team not just an individual ballplayer is something they will take with them through out life.

In up coming articles we will go into batting, fielding, pitching, base running and other fundamental.

Remember baseball is about Having Fun!

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