Baserunning

by Mike Roberts, Tim Bishop

Smart, aggressive baserunning will change a game, a series, and even a season. It sets the philosophy and mind-set of the coaches, trainers, and players. It becomes instinctual and contagious. It translates to pressure and, most important, wins. Baserunning is the most complete and authoritative guide on this critical yet often-overlooked offensive skill. You’ll go inside today’s game to learn the techniques and strategies for ruling the basepaths. Discover the secrets to leading off, detecting pick-off attempts, improving first-step speed, avoiding tags, and determining the best counts and situations for success in stealing bases. But the art of baserunning is more than just speed and swiping bags—it is effortlessly and efficiently rounding the bases, taking the extra base, tagging up, reading defensive positioning, scouting strengths and weakness, forcing errors, and ultimately scoring runs. Only Baserunning covers it all. With major league advice, skill assessment, the best player and team drills, expert instruction, detailed photo sequences, and proven exercises and routines for speed, agility, and quickness, Baserunning is a must-have for every coach, player, and student of the game.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[LAWonder10 · Rating 5 out of 5]

ATTENTION ALL BASEBALL COACHES AND PLAYERS! This is a MUST read!
Does a player have to be fast or strong to become great? No! It is true,
speed and strength can help, but other skills and techniques are more important!

This book is precisely written describing baseball procedures and hints from a PRO! Included are easily interpreted illustrations to help in understanding the information given.

This is so simply written, non-players can easily learn! Beginning with a slight overview of Baseball past and present, it covers: the wisdom of a good uniform, the importance of a proper mindset & running form, how best to slide in various situations, understanding leads and what one needs to know, best responding to grounders and fly-balls, techniques in base stealing, becoming a power hitter or power player. It evens has a section on off-season conditioning.

All of this can be learned in 193 medium font pages! You can read it in a day then keep on hand for reference!

The title and Book Cover are a great "fit"!

This is definitely a book to earn a Five Star rating review!
This book was sent to me in exchange for an HONEST review, of which I have given.
PLEASE PURCHASE TH

[Xenith]

This book has some great info for baseball/softball players at any level. Easy to understand and follow, great tips!

[Josh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Base running

Great tool for a coach trying to figure out how to help their team better base runners. Plenty of useable content.