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    Pitching Only-Action Shots

    Shooting softball is one of my favorite things to shoot.... Two high school pitchers who played against each other from their early days in rec, became friends in our league's all star teams and continued their rivalry into high school. Both are headed off to play DIII next year. DSC08025a by...
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    A Different Kind Of Coach

    Just awesome. I think a must read for every single coach. In the world.
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    New Coach! 8u and I don't know what to do!

    Break the girls up into 2 or 3 groups (4 or 5 girls in a group) for drills. That way they are rotating through the drill quicker and don't have a chance to stand around and get bored. You can have one group working on fielding another on hitting, etc. Then after say 15-20 minutes the groups...
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    New coach, advice please

    I'll try to add what everyone else said... I think the biggest thing is making sure the girls know they can make mistakes (of all types) and not get yelled at/in trouble by you, your assistant coaches or even their parents. You'll have to tell them that, repeat it and put it into action...
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    Another article about facemasks

    A couple of years ago I made it mandatory for the pitchers/pitcher helper, in my town to wear a mask. After years of watching near misses, quick reflexes and one off the chin of a girl who was wearing a mask I decided it was to easy and cheap not to do it. I don't care what baseball does, I...
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    Coaches--what makes you love the game?

    When one of the worst players on the team comes up to you at the end of the season after you give the "I hope to see you all next season..." speech gives you a big smile and a hug and says "I'll be back next season Coach". I know she was coming back because she had fun not because she's some...
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    Electing New Leaque Volunteers

    Well wow.... I think job one would be to try and get your hands a copy of the by-laws and if they are a non-profit organization or a quasi-government organization I believe they are required to have one (I'm assuming this is not a private organization). This should spell out the officer...
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    New League President Looking for Some Advice

    Hi Brett, I don't post here but rarely since the people here are far wiser than me when it comes to softball (said with a serious face), but it sounds like our towns are similar so I thought I'd pipe in. For your first question.. I think doing a fair draft and keeping several teams for the...
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    Dumbing Down Rules for rec ball; does it equalize teams?

    Coach Al, Maybe you should touch bases with the other organizations and see if they have an interest in changing up the rules and if they do maybe starting up your own league, if the local town won't change. My town and four others did that two years ago when the league we were in was...
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    Increasing rec ball registration

    Hi Coach, I'm the softball commissioner for our town and one thing we do is send flyers home with kids through the schools. I also send the occassional email update to the parents to keep them up to date. You may really need to focus on getting the word out that you have made changes and have...
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    Introductions

    Hello Hi everyone, Well I don't have the long softball background/history that most of you have. I am a rec coach for a small town. I call it rec but with my age group 13-15, it definitely isn't rec. We play in a league that does limited travel to other towns (within about 30mins) and...
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    Introductions

    Hello Hi everyone, Well I don't have the long softball background/history that most of you have. I am a rec coach for a small town. I call it rec but with my age group 13-15, it definitely isn't rec. We play in a league that does limited travel to other towns (within about 30mins) and...
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