[PDF] Baseball Strategies eBook

Author : Bob Cluck
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :

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Gives techniques and strategies for baseball coaches and players based on actual team situations.

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780736037389

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Top college baseball coaches offer drills for players at all levels. Focuses on hitting, baserunning, fielding, pitching, and catching.

Author : Larry Schechter
Publisher : Emerald
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fantasy baseball (Game)
ISBN : 9781937110574

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Play smart. Play to win. Play like a champion.

Author : Jerry Kasoff
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780964582675

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Written for 8-12 year olds, this book covers basic rules plus and strategies to make you a better player.

Author : John Schuerholz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446554170

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Lost two Cy Young winners in two years, signed a forty-seven-year-old to be his starting first baseman, played seventeen rookies in 2005, and still took his team to the playoffs: baseball is John Schuerholz's world, and everyone else is just playing in it. In Built to Win, the legendary general manager takes you behind the scenes of the Braves' front office—the most successful in baseball since 1990—and shows how his unique philosophies and leadership techniques have helped Atlanta achieve something no team in sports has ever come close to accomplishing. He candidly peels back the curtain, taking you to his first World Series with the Kansas City Royals and the other moments that defined his career, including his eventual departure to the league doormat Atlanta Braves. No sooner did Schuerholz arrive than they won their first title in 1991—and the rest is history. You'll be there on the incredible night in 1992 when Schuerholz improbably traded for Barry Bonds-only to have the deal nixed at the eleventh hour. You'll see how through shrewd negotiation he swooped in to sign reigning Cy Young-winner Greg Maddux out from under the free-spending Yankees. You'll hear how he dealt with the horrific comments made by John Rocker, helping the Braves overcome the biggest PR nightmare in team history to win yet another division crown. Through the eyes of one of the game's sharpest executives, you'll see why Moneyball only scrapes the tip of Schuerholz's time-tested theories, as well as how he developed the premier scouting system in the majors and a free agent strategy that led the Braves to the top of the heap-fourteen years running. And in the end, you'll see what the rest of the baseball world has known for the better part of two decades: that through the brilliance of John Schuerholz, the Braves have lived with one motto, and one motto alone: "All We Do Is Win."

Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345517652

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What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.

Author : Marty Schupak
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780736056328

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"Youth Baseball Drills" features helpful tips to make on-field practice more fun and can be employed to develop players' understanding, skills, and love for the sport.