CONTROL The Game: How to win as a baseball pitcher
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Great baseball pitchers get the fundamentals right early - like in little league and high school. CONTROL The Game is a short, 25-page ebook with easy-to-understand principles that are helpful to coaches, players and teammates to pitchers. The book is geared toward winning games. It does not have drills, advice on how to hold or release the ball. No, this book focuses on helping the pitcher understand that their position is uniquely able to control the pace and outcome of the game. It actually encourages throwing bad pitches. The reason is simple. Batters can hit good pitches! The book has other counter-intuitive gems like this that help turn throwers into pitchers.
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CONTROL The Game - Gene Strautman
CONTROL
The Game
How to win as a baseball pitcher.
William E. Strautman
Copyright © 2016 William E. Strautman
All rights reserved.
DEDICATION
This book, written by my father, William Eugene Strautman, is dedicated to him, by his son, William Eric Strautman, who is making his book available to aspiring baseball pitchers. Dad, you are the best. Thank you for all the life lessons.
NOTE: The printed version of this book, available on Amazon, makes a terrific gift for coaches, dads, and players. Get the whole team to autograph the cover!
1 IT'S A MIND GAME
Pitching baseball is one of the ultimate one-on-one experiences in sports... it demands both fine concentration and broad awareness. Unlike other positions in this game - where instant reflex is required to respond to action... pitchers create action and have time to plan the batter’s failure. Pitchers who just throw the ball can throw great and still lose the game! By the same token, you can throw lousy and still pitch a winner... mental sharpness is the difference... it’s called having your head in the game.
Give me a slow pitcher who thinks
the game and I will beat your mindless smoker every