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Minors Baseball : The Complete Coach's Manual for Ages 7-9 - Coach Pitch to Kid Pitch: Practice Plans, Drills, and a Full 12-Week Season for Youth Base
by David Kenny
Overview
Your players can hit off a tee and mostly know where first base is. Now the game gets real.
Minors Baseball is the complete coaching system for ages 7-9 - the years of coach pitch, machine pitch, and (for many 9-year-olds) the first season of kid pitch. Live pitching, actual outs, and kids who suddenly, desperately want to be good at this: this book covers all of it.
Inside you'll find:
- The complete 12-week season plan - 24 station-based practices that build from catch-play fundamentals to full situational scrimmages
- A drill library of 18+ drills with progressions - receiving and soft hands, fly balls, grounders and footwork, live hitting, the two-strike battle, and the first pitching and catching work
- The 75-minute practice formula: warmup and throwing progression, three small-group stations, team defense, and live play - every practice, every week
- Game IQ, taught simply: force vs. tag, "where's my play?", backing up bases, and baserunning decisions
- Safety upgrades for real baseballs: catcher's gear rules, arm care and pitch-limit guidance, sliding, and a proven fix for fear of the ball
- Playing-time and bench-rotation systems that keep 12 players developing and 24 parents calm - plus email templates and the 24-hour rule
- A one-page cheat sheet for the field
Level 2 of the three-book Diamond Ready Coaching Series (Beginner's for 5-6, Majors for 10-12). Works with any recreational youth baseball program.
This is the age where kids decide whether baseball is theirs. Coach it like it matters - because it does.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798187311293
- ISBN-10: 9798187311293
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2026
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.08 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.28 pounds
- Page Count: 32
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