Coaching Youth Baseball launches a much-improved third generation of the American Sport Education Program’s (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. This widely respected and highly popular series has established itself as the best collection of sport-specific guides grounded in positive coaching principles. ASEP, the nation’s number one coaching education program, developed Coaching Youth Baseball to provide you with both an explanation of your role as a youth baseball coach and concrete instructions on how to fulfill that role. You will find chapters on communicating with your athletes and their parents, teaching and developing baseball skills, creating season plans and conducting practices, and coaching in game situations. The third edition of this book includes a special bonus—a chapter on the games approach to teaching baseball skills and tactics. The games approach is an effective way for you to coach youth baseball, and it makes learning more fun for your young athletes. Coaching Youth Baseball is a companion resource for ASEP's Coaching Youth Baseball online course, used by numerous youth sport organizations and park and recreation departments to certify youth coaches of athletes ages 6 to 13.