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“Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.”
--Michele Smith

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen.

Straight from the Michele Smith Gold Camps and Clinics, these drills are designed to give you all the tools you need to teach the entire range of offensive and defensive softball skills. With Michele's expert guidance and instruction, you'll coach your players to:

• Master the mechanics of footwork for fielding with hustle
• Swing for the fences and hit the fastest pitches
• Catch the ball proactively and throw it quickly and accurately to its target
• Defend the infield and outfield with speed and confidence
• Run the bases swiftly and strategically
• Refine fast-pitch skills so they can windmill like Michele
• And much more

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In Making Little League Baseball® More Fun for Kids, long time baseball coach Randy Voorhees arms coaches with dozens of innovative, easy-to-perform games and drills guaranteed to dramatically increase the fun quotient of their practices while building the skills, confidence, motivation, and sheer love of the sport Little Leaguers need to win games. Designed to involve all team members in practice, these "games within the game" cover all fundamentals in the categories of hitting, pitching, fielding, and baserunning..
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The authoritative sourcebooks for parents, players, and coaches

Baseball is a complicated game to learn, particularly for a 9- to 12-year-old's attention span.

Bewildered managers, coaches, and parents of the more than 2.5 million Little League Baseball® players need all the help they can get. Filled with fun and easy-to-follow instructions and advice on teaching the fundamentals of baseball, the bestselling Little League Baseball® series is sure to score with coaches and kids alike.

THE LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL® GUIDE TO CORRECTING THE 25 MOST COMMON MISTAKES

For young players (and their coaches) there's nothing more frustrating than struggling with baseball fundamentals. With the systematic approach in this user-friendly guide, coaches will learn to recognize and repair the most common faults that young players make..
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Learn how to manage your youth team to successWith its "teach basics and have fun" approach, Managing Little League Baseball is dedicated to helping you teach baseball fundamentals to boys and girls while emphasizing how to make the experience rewarding for you and your players Fully approved by Little League Baseball® and illustrated with instructive photos and diagrams, this book will give you the tools you need to develop prepared ballplayers.

Inside you'll learn:

• Twenty of the most important and frequently used Little League baseball rules, including the latest change and the new rules regarding pitchers
• The fundamentals of hitting, baserunning, defense, and pitching
• Tips on motivating players, game strategy, and special challenges such as competitive pressure and demanding parents
• An inside look at Little League softball

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Put your game into overdrive with this complete guide to harnessing your athletic instincts.

In baseball, a five-tool player possesses the five most important skills: hitting for power, hitting for average, defense, arm strength, and speed. But there is one essential skill that brings it all together: the sixth tool. It's that extra something, an X-factor that can make a good player great.

In this fully illustrated, information-packed guide, coach Mark Gola shows you how to use your smarts to channel your instincts, psych out your opponents, deal with pressure, and much more. Whether you're in Little League or heading for the majors, Baseball's Sixth Tool will teach you how to:

• Fire up your baserunning without increasing speed
• Step up your defensive play using keen observation and communication
• Master pitching with super-smart strategies
• Perfect your swing by getting prepared before you step to the plate
• Become the all-around all-star player that every coach wants

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Not all art's made for museums or above the sofa. Here is your chance to step into the shoes of giants like Picasso and spread your creations around the unlimited magnetic surfaces worldwide. This clever little kit features four-color, cubist-styled magnetic pieces, including 4 faces to act as a blank canvas for you to experiment with the placement of 4 mouths, 4 noses, and 8 eyes. Amaze your friends and scandalize your more conservative acquaintances with your magnetic masterpieces, or add the pieces to your own photos and turn your friends and families into your own unique cubist masterpieces..
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Covers every detail, including some missed in other books. This thorough book provides a clear roadmap to designing, implementing and operating Configuration Management. The author leaves no key process out and completely covers everything from initial concept to measuring effectiveness and process improvement.

The book starts with an initial strategy that is focused on planning Configuration Management services that are completely aligned to requirements and are based on a mission statement. This business-oriented approach is refreshing and will keep IT grounded in the real reasons for a Configuration Management. More importantly is the process for careful selection of services to provide. An overly ambitious set of service goals will kill a Configuration Management implementation early in its life by offering too much before there is a stable Configuration Management process in place. This book is realistic and lays the foundation for a successful implementation.

The section on the actual design of the Configuration Management structure provides insights and information that can be applied to a large number of solutions. Since Configuration Management will be organized in accordance with requirements and unique mission statements, this section of the book is like a catalog of patterns. It has excellent tips on how to best structure Configuration Management to meet requirements and mission. The information on accurately estimating requirements is consistent with industry best practices and something that, believe it or not, is often overlooked when Configuration Management is established.

This book gets into the meat by thoroughly covering the processes that are essential to running Configuration Management. There are many topics that stand out as both unique [to books of this genre] and reflect best practices by the best-run Configuration Management Managers. Examples are change control, disaster recovery and vendor management. These topics show that the author not only considers business alignment, but also cross-functional alignment within IT.

Professional resources and underlying technology are provided in detail.

This book contains an in-depth coverage of operational requirements for Configuration Management once it has been implemented. It hits all of the critical success factors, such as performance metrics, service level agreements, communications and internal evaluations. It even has a chapter on marketing, which is something that is important but not often done by most Configuration Management Managers. This proactive approach to keeping users (your customers) informed of new services, accomplishments and tips is excellent and will go a long way towards attaining high customer satisfaction scores - not to mention proving the value of the Configuration Management to IT and business management.

You will find this book to be one of the best for planning and implementing world-class Configuration Management.

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Access 2000 is the latest version of Microsoft's best-selling relational database. RUNNING MICROSOFT ACCESS 2000 is a comprehensive reference that takes readers through the most used tasks and functions of the software. The book is easy to use, with a friendly, open design that features copious screen shots, call-outs, cross-references, and tips. This new-generation Running series is more in-depth than ever before!.
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