Baseball's first World Series was played in 1903. The contest to decide the World Champions of baseball resulted from player raids by the fledgling American League. This brand new league had declared itself to be a major league and contested with ...

Train Your Trunk and Your Upper Body Equally

Everyone knows that you use more of your body than just your arm to throw a baseball or softball. Yet, when I walk through a gym I always see ball players spending most of their time "working" th ...

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When performing RESISTANCE TRAINING, strive for STRENGTH BALANCE ACROSS JOINTS AND MUSCLE GROUPS, as opposed to merely ...

Train for SPEED Development

Face it, on any given day there are a multitude of factors that can adversely affect your game. The biggest dynamic I see in the game is SPEED - pure running speed. It seems that no matter what else may be going ...

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Train for POWER

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Baseball and softball are not games of strength, but of EXPLOSIVE POWER. Just how strong do you have to be to pick up a 5 oz baseball, or a 30 oz bat? On the other hand, propelling th ...

As the steroid talk swirls around baseball like the juice surging into Jason Giambi¡¯s veins, America¡¯s favorite pastime continues to be bruised, right when spring training is getting started. First, it was Giambi¡¯s admission of taking the muscle- ...

I heard an ESPN analyst on the radio defending Jason Giambi. He wasn't excusing Giambi for using steroids, but he was certainly not condemning him, either. "He wasn't the only one doing it," the analyst said. Wow! I said to myself. Unbelievabl ...

What is a mental approach and what is the right frame of mind? You often hear about the mental approach to the game. But some people don't understand what this means. It simply means how you think about the game before actually playing the game. L ...

Baseball and life have a lot of similarities. I know what you are thinking, yea right, it's simply a game involving a bat and a ball. What can that possibly teach us? I am here to tell you what it can teach you. Not only baseball, but other sports ...

There has been a lot of controversy about steroids in baseball. \rDoes it enhance performance and what are the side effects. Are\rrecords today the result of steroids. And are athletes harming\rthemselves.

First of all, we need to understand ...

Coaching our youth is a delicate practice that needs to be taken with the kids self confidence at the heart of the teaching. These days, parents and coaches alike want to win so bad, they put undue stress on the kids that can have a negative effec ...

I loved being around the baseball players when they had something to say that I thought would have a positive impression. Here are some of the quotes that I have enjoyed and have inspired me.

Bob Gibson
\r¡° I owe the public one thing - a ...

No one knows for sure where baseball exacted originated. However, most baseball buffs will concur that the sport is based on the English game of rounders. In the United States, baseball became popular in the early 1800¡¯s, originally known as townb ...

¡°Do our baseball heroes have feet of clay?¡±

Ok, we have suspected the sudden rash of home run hitters and stupendous long balls were the result of something fishy. We wanted to believe the home run magic¡¯s time had come. We had a lot of rat ...

The ezine for baseball lovers...
\rStatistics - I love ¡®em

I have been fascinated by some of the statistics that have been amassed by some of the major leaguers. Viewing some players numbers has amazed me.

Here are a few achievement ...