These ideas are for directors, trainers, players, and parents. While this is written mainly for the beginner in the baseball - the small Member of a league - the reader will discover that the same fundamental principles function in all the branches of baseball. The good manners to carry out a play and the good attitude obtain the same results in the principal leagues as in the small leagues, and the false manner is right like hostile with good results.



The astonishing thing is that so many principal members of a league make errors - corrigible errors - what shows than we shouldn' T await too many boys and than us should always remember that it human east to wander. At the same time, should never not lose sight of the fact the occasion to us to teach fundamental principles of play and constructive life.

It was the vacuum cleaner of Herbert who observed that the sports of team are the greatest formation in morals, in the second place only with the religious faith, and one of the greatest stimulants of the constructive joy in the world. We can provide this joy and to be a part of it if we carry out the potentialities of a program like small league and draw the best from them.

Know Your Players

If you end up knowing your physical boys, their limitations and possibilities, their environment and their personalities, you able to help them to develop and develop. Thus you can find a boy of which the parents take little interest in him and who limited capacities. A little of praise will give a great push to its moral. You point out that the boys have a scale of position to overdraft. Change your program of instruction and keep-the recreation.

To be useful of young people the good, you must know the their needs, interests, and capacities, and you must know your own limitations, too.

The Attitudes Are Important

Perhaps the special occasions comes to the chief of adult in attitudes involutes. Since its own attitude will be reflected with a majority of its players, it is important that it understand and inform that the relationship with referees, directors, trainers, and other players should be friendly.

Maintain in the spirit that the players should take part for the pleasure and the advantage which they derive. Too much often the tendency must pour the attention and the rewards on the gifted young man and be unaware of the benchwarmer. The achievement is its own reward, and a boy who strikes a race of house obtains satisfaction sufficient to carry out this exploit. It additional honors of the need for doesn't.

Too much often on the field of play the participants develops a complex of escape by blaming the defeat on the civils servant, team-members, or work dirty with the crossroads . young people should learn that the best victory from don't of teams all theequal one where they propose their best efforts - and which worst don't of teams loses all the hour. Days ago when the degain team obtains the bad rebounds, all the narrow plays go to lencontre she, and the bloop blows unload between the players of ground.

The team which continues to hurry of daily newspaper, profits by her errors and learns how not to repeat them, and learns how to accept the fact that the breaks even to the top above one season is the team with the good mental approach with the play. It came to identify that a majority of plays can be decided by the good one or bad play at once and by the provided type of control, and it acts consequently.

Develop All the Players

You will establish the moral one by developing all your players - not simply nine or ten better boys. The day can come when several of your players miss, and you will have troubles if you haven't given to your experiment of game players of reservation . each director can find a manner of playing all his players with regular intervals, and it will have a stronger and happier team at the end of the season and in forthcoming seasons if it gives to all the boys a chance to play and to develop.

The dividends to make these additional efforts prepare with control come to the director by the privilege from better boys from building by the baseball.