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My son’s regular season is over.  He is now beginning practice for his league’s All-Star team.  I am the Assistant Coach for the All-Star team and we have two weeks of practice before our games begin.  Our practices are two hours long for three days a week.  I was wondering how enthusiastic 8 year olds would be practicing for two hours a night.  A two hour baseball practice is quit a long time for any…

In a recent poll, kids say that the problem with youth sports is adults. In this 1999 file photo, a coach exhorts his 9 and 10 year-old baseball players. Their team is The Giants, and they played in the Newton North Little League. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File     Youth sports: The problem, say kids in a new poll, is adults – CSMonitor.com.

Looking for a Father’s Day gift.  I would love this mouse pad!   Akadema Home Plate Mouse Pad via Akadema Home Plate Mouse Pad .

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Anthony Renteria Chosen in 39th Round of MLB Draft via California State University San Marcos Athletics – Anthony Renteria Chosen in 39th Round of MLB Draft.

June 05, 2012 8:30 pm  •  By JOHN MAFFEI jmaffei@nctimes.com SAN DIEGO —- Nolan Gannon and River Stevens didn’t hesitate when asked about their plans. Both intend to turn down college scholarships to sign with the major league teams that selected them on the second day of baseball’s amateur draft Tuesday. Gannon, a hard-throwing right-hander from Santa Fe Christian School, was picked in the fourth round by the Tampa Bay Rays. Stevens, who starred at Mission Hills…

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In the article Building Players One Day at a Time, Bill Ripken states that sometimes we expect too much out of our kids.  He believes in a slow approach to teaching kids how to play the game.  Link to the full article Building Players One Day at a Time by Bill Ripken from www.ripkenbaseball.com.

I’ve played high school and college baseball. I know what it feels like to want to win for yourself, your teammates and your coaches. I understood that for my coaches their livelihoods may very well rest on the teams win-loss record. That was pressure. That was pressure that I chose to be a part of. All these years later, as I began to coach Zachary’s team, I immediately came up with my goals; fun and…

Before I go batty, let’s talk Wiffle Ball. Do kids play Wiffle Ball anymore? Probably one of the greatest and least expensive games ever. We’ve all seen the yellow hard plastic Wiffle Ball bat. The barrel diameter of the bat is 1 1/8″! Why is that? What the bat lacks in diameter, it makes up for in proper batting technique. In Wiffle Ball, I learned to keep my weight back, watch out for my buddy…