Teaching Baseball to Kids

Lots of Dads want to coach baseball. This is a great, healthy thing that I highly recommend to anyone that is even thinking about doing it. Some of the best memories I have playing baseball were on teams that my Dad coached. Being a coach is tons of fun, and can be rewarding – but I’ll be brutally honest here: If you want to be a great coach…it takes TONS of work.

I’m heading into my first season as a full-time travel coach. (this just means we aren’t playing in a recreation league- I’m not getting paid.) I challenged the players and their parents in our initial meeting last fall saying;

I’m going to hold everyone to a higher standard next year – players, parents and coaches. If I expect more out of your kids, I’m going to expect more of out all the coaches too.

I’ve taken that very seriously and have put in more time and organization into this team than I have my entire sports coaching career. Is that the answer for everyone? No – not at all. I just wanted to make sure that this team won’t fail because the coach wasn’t prepared or knowledgeable. I wanted to start day one with the type of attention to detail that I’d want my players to have on the field.

Tags: baseball, coaching, organization