Teach your Kid How to Hit a Baseball Like an All-Star - A Complete Baseball Batting Instruction Guide

by Justin Martin

DOES YOUR CHILD WANT TO LEARN HOW TO REALLY HIT A BASEBALL?

ANY PARENT CAN DEVELOP A SUCCESSFUL CONFIDENT BASEBALL HITTING ALL-STAR


Let’s face it. Most youth league coaches have little time to teach detailed hitting to each of their players. Parent’s figure this out very quickly and most cannot afford the expensive costs for private batting lessons or baseball training clubs.

And, many parents are spending the time with their child to practice hitting, but are frustrated with the lack of results. It is not that difficult, but many parent’s focus on the wrong things and leave out the essential steps required for a proper swing and solid ball contact.

If you want to learn how to teach your child to hit a baseball and become a star hitter, my book shows you exactly what and how to teach baseball hitting to your child . . . even if you have never played the game.

This book teaches you everything you need to know about hitting, including:

-The right way to grip a bat and take a batting stance needed to produce a perfect swing
-How to easily add power to the swing to turn weak ground balls and pop ups into line drives
-Instilling your child with a positive attitude so he enter the batter’s box with excitement and confidence needed to become a great hitter
-Over 10 easy to follow baseball drills that to improve and perfect all parts of the swing
-A trouble shooting guide that provides solutions to the most common hitting problems

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 17, 2012

About the author

My latest is A Fierce Glory, out in September (Da Capo Press). It's a group biography treatment of Antietam, the Civil War's pivotal battle, still America's single bloodiest day. The rich cast includes: Robert E. Lee, pioneering war photographer Alexander Gardner, and Jonathan Letterman, the father of battlefield medicine. Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation are woven into my account far more than in a typical military history of Antietam.

My specialty is American history, meticulously researched, but delivered in a narrative style that’s akin to fiction. My previous book was Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians (Da Capo, 2014) about a decadent and incredibly influential artists’ circle that hung out at Pfaff’s saloon in NYC during the 1850s. Among its members: a young Walt Whitman; Artemus Ward, America’s first standup comic; psychedelic drug pioneer Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and Adah Isaacs Menken, an actress notorious for her “"Naked Lady" act. Rebel Souls, chosen as the outstanding biography of 2014 by the Victoria Society, New York, and as a finalist for the Marfield Prize, was also picked as one of the best books of that year by both the Kansas City Star and Choice magazine.

Before that, I wrote Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (Da Capo, 2011). Genius tells the story of one of the most important figures in the history of America. Olmsted was a fervent abolitionist, noted journalist, Civil War hero, early environmentalist, and the landscape architect behind New York's Central Park, Boston's Emerald Necklace, Stanford University, the Biltmore Estate and dozens of other green spaces around the U.S.

Other subjects have included Alan Greenspan and Ralph Nader. My Greenspan bio was selected as a notable book for 2001 by the New York Times Book Review. My Nader bio was a primary source for An Unreasonable Man, an Academy Award nominated documentary. I have also written a number of children's books for use in the classroom, everything from biographies to fractured fairy tales to titles designed to help young readers learn parts of speech. I'm a generalist. I love to write on varied subjects for both kids and adults.

I'm a 1987 graduate of Rice University in Houston, TX. I live with my wife and twin sons in Forest Hills Gardens, NY, a neighborhood designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.