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    Hey, Coach!
    Hey, Coach!
    Hey, Coach!
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    Hey, Coach!

    By D A Cooper

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    This is kind of a coaching for dummies book. I spent the first 10 years coaching my children in baseball and softball, making a lot of mistakes both with my players and their parents and wasting a lot of time in practice. This little book should be great for a first time coach or one who could use some new ideas.
    Though my experience coaching is in baseball, this could apply to all youth sports.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD A Cooper
    Release dateNov 14, 2012
    ISBN9781301307821
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      Hey, Coach! - D A Cooper

      Hey, Coach!

      By:

      D A Cooper

      ~~~

      Copyright 2012

      Original print copyright 2008

      Published by D A Cooper

      Smashwords Edition

      Cover Graphics by J M Cooper

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold

      or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,

      please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did

      not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to

      Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work

      of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter-1 You-A Coach?

      Chapter-2 Getting Involved with Your League

      Chapter-3 Recreational or Select Baseball

      Chapter-4 Putting Together the Team

      Chapter 5-First Meeting

      Chapter 6-Practice Sessions

      Chapter 7-The Game

      Chapter 8-Ending the Season

      Chapter 9-Staying Involved with the League

      Chapter 10-Planning for Next Season

      Chapter 11-The End

      ~~~

      You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

      ~Jim Bouton

      Preface

      So You Really Think You Want To Coach Youth Baseball?

      One fine spring day in the late ‘70’s, my wife advised me that it was my day to take our 9-year old daughter Andrea to her softball practice. As always, I did as I was told and upon reaching the softball complex we found 10 or 12 more nine and ten year old pixies along with assorted parents and grandparents; all about to become the mighty BLAZERS of the Mini Division in our city’s Girls Softball League. After standing around for five or ten minutes, one of the parents stated that our coach had not

      shown up for practice several times and this looked like another. We had no equipment, so I walked over to the next field where another team was practicing and introduced myself to the team manager, Mr. Lewis Bulen, and he kindly lent me a bat and a ball. I figured that I could hit some ‘flies and ‘rollers’with the best of them and it was a good practice we had. Another dad, Don Willoughby, came out on the field and helped ‘catch in’.

      Three days later, I found myself volunteering to take Andrea to practice again. About the time that we drove up, a man in a big ‘heavy half’ pickup drives up, throws out a big, green army duffel bag and asks me if I was the new coach of the Blazers. Nosirr! sez I, -just a daddy. Well, this young feller advises me that he is Dwight Jennings, the Mini Division Director sent from the Board of Directors of the Duncanville Girls Softball League to tell me that the Blazer’s original Manager had quit and moved off and that I was, like it or not, the new Blazer’s Manager. And that’s how this all began; and that’s the truth.

      Unlike a real writer, say-a novelist, I don’t see any need to change names to protect the innocent. The names of parents, coaches, league leaders and players are all real people all doing real things to make a youth baseball/softball program work and be a living part of our community. I say this as a great big thank you to all of them for teaching me and letting me be a part of their lives and of this community. As you think about getting involved, remember – you don’t have to be the mayor or city councilman to get involved in your community.

      Almost thirty years have passed since I first coached the Blazers. My kids have all retired from the grand old game, but each spring I head back out to the ball yard to coach again. Some people hunt, others golf. I coach baseball. Along the way, as you might imagine, I learned a few things. The concept of writing down some of these lessons and ideas was not my own. It began a number of years ago when I discovered that if, before the season began, I shared a few concepts with my fellow coaches, our players and their parents, the season was usually much more successful for all. I tried to organize my thoughts for what, in this manual, is Chapter V. I have written it down and rewritten it over the years for the teams that I was blessed to coach. I have shared that Chapter with many a young coach, and all told me it was helpful. Finally, my daughter Andrea encouraged me to take it one step further and write a book of sorts. Not an Ernest Hemingway type of book, but a book that a young father or mother can read and, in short

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