Author: 9 Inning Know It All

By Josh: Happy Father’s Day. After reading my first two articles in this series I’ve realized I need to write a post just saying thank you to all of the…

By Norm: Hey all, Happy early Fathers Day. There has been some great posts from Josh and others about coaching T-Ball. I would like to add to that. My name…

By Josh: I enjoy coaching. I actually started coaching in high school when I was an assistant coach with my dad for my youngest sisters fast pitch team. I later…

By Josh: I see a lot of baseball and softball games every year. I watch major league baseball, minor league, college, summer leagues and even little leagues. I have seen…

By Josh Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about coaching. I’ve been thinking about the lack of coaches in both baseball and softball, what it is like to coach as…

In order for a player to continue improving they must face new challenges and learn from them. For Zach Vetter this summer is an opportunity for him to take on…

Catchers naturally have a different mentality then other position players. Some say they are a little crazy. A certain mentality is definitely needed to catch.  A lot of great managers…

An aggressive player has the potential to take a a routine situation and turn it into a game changing play. Whether that is making a needed defensive play to stop…

For a pitcher nothing is as important as location of your pitches and when James Anderson locates his pitches he can be absolutely dominating. Even though he is one of…

Some players love to talk about how good they are, while others let their play on the field do their talking. Dale Takalo isn’t the loudest player talking about himself,…