Baserunning
"Smart, aggressive baserunning will change a game, a series, and even a season. It sets the philosophy and mind-set of the coaches, trainers, and players. It becomes instinctual and contagious. It translates to pressure and, most important, wins. Baserunning is the most complete and authoritative guide on this critical yet often-overlooked offensive skill. You'll go inside today's game to learn the techniques and strategies for ruling the basepaths. Discover the secrets to leading off, detectin…
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- Full title :Baserunning / Mike Roberts with Tim Bishop ; foreword by Terry Francona.
Summary
"Smart, aggressive baserunning will change a game, a series, and even a season. It sets the philosophy and mind-set of the coaches, trainers, and players. It becomes instinctual and contagious. It translates to pressure and, most important, wins. Baserunning is the most complete and authoritative guide on this critical yet often-overlooked offensive skill. You'll go inside today's game to learn the techniques and strategies for ruling the basepaths. Discover the secrets to leading off, detecting pick-off attempts, improving first-step speed, avoiding tags, and determining the best counts and situations for success in stealing bases. But the art of baserunning is more than just speed and swiping bags--it is effortlessly and efficiently rounding the bases, taking the extra base, tagging up, reading defensive positioning, scouting strengths and weakness, forcing errors, and ultimately scoring runs. Only this book covers it all."--P. 4 de la couv.
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- Publication Date:[2014].
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Human Kinetics
- Place of Publication:Champaign, IL
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:[2014].
Notes
La couverture porte en outre: Leads, steals, sliding and more, foreword by Terry Francona.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 196 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781450432184, 1450432182
- oclc:ocn915915034
- LC Classification:GV868
- Dewey Decimal:796.357/27
Table of Contents
Pt 1 Basepath fundamentals 1. More than speed -- 2. Sliding -- 3. Leading off -- Pt 2 Running the bases 4. Breaking from the box -- 5. Infield grounders -- 6. Outfield flies -- Pt 3 Base stealing 7. Stealing second base -- 8. Stealing third base -- 9. Stealing home -- 10. Double steal -- Pt 4 Strength and conditioning 111. Developing power -- 12. Speed and quickness -- 13. Off-season conditioning.
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