Baseball Practice Tips

Team travel can be a very exciting event. If you are hitting the road with your team for a tournament, it means your team has accomplished something. While you should certainly be proud of having the opportunity to place in a unique location against a higher level of competition that will truly test the skills [...]

  In 2013, American Legion Baseball is joining many other leagues in moving exclusively to wood bats.  This is going to dramatically change the way that the game is played as small ball becomes more and more important. You are going to see team batting averages drop by .75 to .100 points, probably more at [...]

A great video that shows Todd Hundley nailing Kendrys Morales on a pitchout.    

Taking a close look at why Mariano Rivera is such a great closer and why his cutter is such a devastating pitch.

I am not a doctor so I won’t attempt to answer the age-old question of what is the right age for a pitcher to begin throwing a curve ball.  No doubt, a curve ball can be a devastating pitch at young ages if it can be controlled.  I’ll leave that up to an individual’s decision [...]

Cal Ripken discusses middle infielders’ signals for coverage at second base.  My teams do it a little differently in that we have the second baseman call the signals when a right handed hitter is up and the shortstop calls it when a left handed hitter is up.  We do it this way, because it is [...]

Yankees vs. Mets — June 2009. Subway Series. Watch as Mark Texeira runs full out on a routine popup and scores the winning run from first base.

Some aspects of the suicide squeeze make it a little different than bunting to move a runner up. In this video, Billy Ripken talks about squaring around a little later.  Ripken also talks about the importance of putting every ball in play, regardless of where it is pitched. In youth baseball, pitchers tend to wind [...]

When you take a look at these facilities, it’s not difficult to understand why Vanderbilt has the top recruiting class in college baseball for 2012, according to Baseball America.

If you are the mother or father of a young girl or boy beginning his baseball career and you need to learn the basics of the game, then watch this video and you’ll be able to coach the next Albert Pujols or Jason Verlander.

College baseball hitting trends showed a dramatic drop in home runs and batting average in 2011 after the implementation of the BBCOR standard for bats.  The chart below shows the drop in batting average in the 2011 season.  Note that the NCAA began allowing aluminum bats prior to the 1974 season.  Weight limits curtailed batting [...]