Building the Future of Youth Sports Through Education, Fun, and Community.
Self & Body Awareness
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Your Drip is Making You Look Dumb
The baseball swag industry has studied MLB players and is now selling their look to their youth baseball player fans. Batting gloves, sliding mitts, elbow guards, and $600 bats are not player development tools. They are marketing tools, and the families buying them deserve to know the difference.
Mental Game Mastery & Mindset (EQ)
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A Case for Accountability
It would have been easy to blame the driver. He was early. We were running late. But in that moment, between the panic and the car line, there was a better lesson available, one about what we can control, what we can't, and why accountability almost always feels better than blame once you actually try it.
Baseball Strategy & Situational Game IQ
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How to Make a Mound Visit as a Youth Catcher
Every catcher eventually walks out to the mound with no script and a pitcher who needs something they can't quite name yet. This guide is for that moment: when to go, what to do when you get there, and how to build the kind of presence your pitcher trusts before the hard innings even start. Nobody teaches this part. Here it is.
Coaching Tools & Fundamentals That Scale
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Switch-Hitter Switches Mid At-Bat: Banana Ball or Big Brain?
A 10U player stepped in lefty for the first pitch, then switched after one pitch. What looked like confusion might actually have been instinct backed by neuroscience. Deliberate unfamiliarity might be a real tool for slumping hitters.
Strength, Conditioning & Recovery
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Travel Ball Isn’t a Cure-All
Travel baseball gets recommended for almost every situation where a player wants to grow. But more games without the conditioning foundation to support them doesn't build better players. It builds injured ones.
For The Love of the Game
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The Baseball That Lasted a Lifetime: Goodbye to Tommy John
When Tommy John's card was declined at a Toys R Us register in 1988, a regional manager stepped in and changed a family's Christmas forever. That signed baseball has traveled through four decades, one father's passing, and now one more loss. This is a personal goodbye to Tommy John and the memory he left behind without ever knowing it.
Community & Culture
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No Ticket to The Show
Around age eight, most towns quietly move girls from baseball to softball without asking them what they want. What looks like a natural transition is actually a structural removal, and the drop in engagement that follows isn't a coincidence. This post asks the questions that most coaches and parents aren't asking and names what it would take to actually fix it.
Nutrition for Performance
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Sitting For Long Stretches Linked to Increased Cancer Death Risk
The research is no longer ambiguous. Each additional hour of prolonged, uninterrupted sedentary behavior is associated with a 9% higher risk of cancer death, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine by researchers at the University of Glasgow. The system that trained us to sit this long starts in kindergarten. This post imagines building something different.
