Travel Baseball

You’ll be given the ins and outs of recruiting to start stocking your team with premium players; an inside look at the most effective batting drills to ensure an offensive powerhouse; and proper fielding techniques and drills to reinforce the techniques.

Japanese baseball is one of the greatest spectator experiences in the world, a must-see for tourists and baseball fans alike. Leap over the language barrier and take advantage of JapanBall’s years of trip planning experience with our first ever travel guide!

Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America's favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true.

This book is written by Coach Chris Romano, who is a Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Detroit Tigers, as well as the father of two youth baseball players. Coach Romano decided to write this book to share his expertise with the awesome dads who volunteer to coach their kids youth baseball teams. Everyone wants to help their kids and their team to be better ball players, and a lot of youth travel teams have incorporated some type of Strength, Speed, and Conditioning work into their practices. However, most of these coaches are not experienced in the science of Strength & Conditioning, ...

A year-by-year guide of what to expect and how to find the best team for your son, plus a player's perspective on many aspects of travel baseball.

You followed the pitch count. You respected the rest days. And your pitcher still woke up sore. Now what? In youth baseball today, pitch counts are treated as the gold standard for arm injury prevention. Stay under the limit. Follow the rules. Check the box. But what happens when soreness shows up anyway? Beyond Pitch Counts challenges one of the most common misconceptions in youth pitching: that numbers alone protect the arm. They don’t. Because pitch counts measure volume. They don’t measure total workload. They don’t account for intensity, stacked throwing days, growth spurts, ...

There's a community for outsider shifters. It started as an idea in Milo Jackson’s head, first by building a B&B on inherited land with Olds, and then by offering the rest of that private land to shifters to settle on. Milo's dream: build a community. As they learn, a community isn’t a community from the day the contractor breaks ground on the first foundation. A community takes time to build and grow. It takes people working together, depending on each other, playing together, and especially sharing embarrassing moments and stories at holiday parties. It takes a few years, but they ...

In the game of love, there are winners and losers..but ALL is fair between the sheets. Dive head first into these THREE different standalone romances full of surprises and secrets that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Do you enjoy a HOT Brother's Best Friend OR Best Friend’s Brother story? Age Gap, Bad Boys, Dominant Alphas? Then you've come to the right place because THIS is the box set for you! Surprise Baby For My Best Friend’s Brother As the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding, I was only supposed to dance with her older brother..NOT sleep with him. He’s Julian ...

Sunshine, hot dogs, friends, and the excitement of the game: Baseball is called America's pastime for a reason. Experience the best of the MLB cities and stadiums with Moon Baseball Road Trips. Flexible Itineraries: Explore the 30 major league cities with a variety of road trip options...

From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright. Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man...

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Rose, a successful Chicago publicist, reunites with her best friend from High School, now a famous Hollywood actor, after a 10+ years break in their friendship. Old flames rekindle and through their love affair, and help of their outrageously quirky and laughable friends, Queen, an unabashedly flaming gay man and Whoopi, a sports columnist, they bloom and learn love like people is multi-hued and the key to happiness and love is accepting love and ourselves for what they are.

A fast-paced, heartfelt story for basketball fans that proves being a good teammate remains the most important quality in basketball--and in life, from New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica. Wes' father always told him that there was only one ball in basketball. That you had to know when...

A real-life story of love, perseverance, in the Land of the Rising Sun. This book is like "Lost in Translation" meets "Green Street Hooligans," as we follow McKnight in his struggles to fit into the rigid Japanese workplace, searching for true love, and immersing himself in the fascinating culture that surrounds him. It's a unique look at life through the eyes of a foreigner in Japan, who eventually finds success and happiness.in his adopted homeland. So strap yourself in and get ready for a wild ride through the streets of Tokyo, Osaka, and the backroads of rural Japan, in Part III of the ...

Some games are played on the field. Others are determined in the parking lot. When Tommy Brady takes his twelve-year-old son Kyle to sign up for the North Shore Elite Baseball Academy, he expects tryouts, radar guns, and tough decisions. What he doesn’t expect is the price tag, and the quiet fear that he might be trading his son’s love of the game for a future he can barely afford. Caught between the glossy promises of college exposure and the weathered fence at Cedarbrook Field, Tommy, his wife Karyn, and their two boys find themselves pulled in opposite directions. One path offers ...

A naive American leaves his comfortable life behind to teach English in Japan for a year. Initially overwhelmed with difficulties adapting to the language and culture, he eventually finds love and a sense of purpose in his work. This motivates him to immerse himself in the fascinating new world that surrounds him. As one year becomes two, and two years become three, he decides that Japan is the right place for him until a harsh dose of reality forces him to make a life decision to stay in his adopted country or return home.

Before travel-ball rankings and radar guns, there was the sandlot. Dreams of the Sandlot is a heartfelt baseball memoir about a last-pick kid, one stubborn summer, and one grieving mentor who changed everything on a dusty field most people drove past without noticing. This isn’t a highlight reel. Effort is a choice; you earn respect, and treating people well is more important than the numbers in a box score. Inside you’ll find: A coming-of-age baseball story rooted in small-town summers and simple games Real-life lessons for young players who feel a step behind A powerful message for ...

A foul ball, a red ribbon, and one promise that spans generations. When Kaylee catches a screaming pop fly at Woodland’s Clark Field, the world tilts—and she finds herself in 1942 on the eve of Japanese American incarceration. There she meets Emi, a fearless girl determined to play one last game before the buses arrive. What begins as a reluctant afternoon at the ballpark becomes a race to hold on to home, history, and the friend who teaches Kaylee how courage sounds when you say it out loud. Perfect for fans of When You Reach Me, Refugee, and Baseball Saved Us, this heartfelt middle-...

After he apprehends a fleeing shoplifter, Val D’Isigny is unexpectedly fired from his job as a security officer at a large North Carolina home improvement center. Unemployed and short on cash, it appears the devoted father will be forced to break an earlier promise and cancel his son Andy’s birthday trip to Walt Disney World. When all hope for the family’s trip appears to be lost, wife Eleanor searches the internet and comes up with a plan that will allow her family to spend Andy’s 10th birthday at Walt Disney World for nothing more than the price of groceries and gasoline. Her plan...

IN THE TIME OF MY LIFE: SELECTED WRITINGS is a collection of Joseph Sutton's best writing over a period of fifty years. This anthology of stories and chapters is extracted from Sutton’s eight published books: three novels, three story collections, a memoir and a baseball book. Put all these stories and chapters together and what you have, after fifty years of writing, is a mother lode of revelations, insights, wisdom and humor from the pen of Joseph Sutton.There are key excerpts from Sutton's three novels. MORNING PAGES: THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE is about a writer finding a way to ...