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1) Moneyball
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Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2012]
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The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
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T-Ball Skills & Drills provides over 30 creative t-ball drills for young athletes as well as basic skills for teaching throwing, hitting, and fielding techniques in an easy-to-follow program.The video highlights: All t-ball basics, hitting fundamentals, fielding fundamentals, throwing fundamentals, correcting throwing flaws, baserunning fundamentals, drill organization, safety issues, hints for first time coaches & parents, fun games and more!
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This video explores the most fundamental aspects of throwing a baseball. Covered in this program are the grip, the wind-up, the release and the follow through. Special attention is given to the importance of balance and helping youth pitchers understand that throwing a baseball is not limited to just the arm but the whole body. The video will go through a variety of individual and team pitching drills. Also addressed are arm injuries, injury prevention,...
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This video provides explanations of some of the most common and recurring baseball mistakes that happen in youth baseball games. If you are a coach or parent in a recreational or competitive youth baseball league, this will break down the individual and team mistakes that can be corrected by some basic practice principles that will result in better hitting, pitching, and fielding. Covered are: hitting, pitching, baserunning, fielding, coaching, backing...
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This video addresses two of the most underrated skills in youth baseball:baserunning and bunting. The baserunning portion of the video covers the most basic skills, such as sliding and running techniques, while also addressing more advanced techniques, such as the delayed steal, tagging up, and reading signs. The bunting section covers the different types of bunting techniques, such as the square bunt and the pivot bunt. The video then shows strategies...
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This video covers a variety of strategies for the competitive youth baseball coach. Marty Schupak has drawn on his years of coaching and shared strategies with some of the most successful youth baseball coaches around who have won championships. Addressed are the most common strategic situations that occur in youth baseball games. Covered are cutoffs, back up situations, first and third offensive and defensive situations, the delayed steal, bunting...
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This video contains 34 creative drills that can be used on the practice field with a team as well as by parents and children in their backyard. The drills focus on basics such as base running, hitting, fielding and are explained in detail with a voice over narrator. At the beginning of each drill, a baseball field icon appears with the location of players for that drill. The appropriate age group for this video is 7-12 years old. Older players can...
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This video provides infield team play, techniques and strategies for youth players. Almost 65% of all balls hit in youth baseball are to the infield. Coach Marty Schupak shares his most successful strategies, along with correct techniques that youth coaches should teach their players. This highly effective video covers: defending the steal, rundowns, bunt situations, communication techniques, wild throw backups, defense by position, pickoffs and more!...
14) Fear Strikes Out
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When the record book closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before he racked up those numbers, Piersall faced a foe much tougher that a 90-m.p.h. fastball: mental illness. Anthony Perkins stars as Piersall in this powerful true story. Fear Strikes Out also marks the filmmaking debut of Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan, the team...
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