The Little League Hitter's Journal : Track Your Progress at the Plate with This Handy Logbook

The Little League Hitter's Journal is a fun and interactive way for parents and players to record--and learn from--every swing. A convenient, spiral-bound organizer, it is filled with tips on how to enhance batting skills and provides plenty of room to create a personal scouting report. By recording each performance at the plate, young players will discover their strengths and weaknesses. A unique keepsake, this journal will be treasured by families for years to come.

A fun and interactive way for parents and players to record—and learn valuable lessons from—every swing

Whether you're a parent sitting in the stands at your children's games or a Little League player wielding the bat, you can't help but take note of hitting performance. You remember every home run and every strikeout. After the game, you can give a detailed play-by-play of every swing. But can you remember if the pitcher was right- or left-handed? What was the pitch count when the bat made contact? Were the pitches high, low, inside, or outside? This information and much more is critical to helping hitters understand why they had a good or bad game. And that's what makes this book unique.

Developed by a major league veteran and acclaimed instructor, this convenient, spiral-bound organizer provides plenty of room for recording every at-bat. And it's easy to do. A simple-to-follow system shows you how to:

• Record pitches using scoring shorthand
• Mark down the location of hits using simple field diagrams
• Keep track of counts and at-bat results
• Detect play patterns
• Determine batting average with basic arithmetic
• Analyze the results to create a progress report that will improve future swings

Filled with can't-miss tips, this personal scouting report helps young players discover their strengths and weaknesses—and become better batters. Even more, sitting down as a family after the game to review the plays means quality time at home, making this journal a special memento of your child's Little League days.

Terms of Use......Page 3 Want to learn more?......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 7 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Introduction......Page 11 Hitter's Log Pages......Page 12 Hitter's Log......Page 15 Four-Game Checkpoint......Page 22 Drill......Page 27 The Strike Zone......Page 29 The Hitting Zone......Page 30 Drill......Page 43 Anxiousness......Page 45 Anxiety......Page 46 Anger......Page 47 Drill......Page 59 Fear of the Baseball......Page 61 Fear of Failure......Page 63 Drill......Page 75 Inside Strikes......Page 77 Outside Strikes......Page 78 Low Strikes......Page 79 Drill......Page 91 Take Extra Batting Practice......Page 93 Visualize......Page 94 Change......Page 95 Drill......Page 107 Rolling the Top Hand Prematurely......Page 109 Barring the Lead Arm and Casting the Swing......Page 110 Stepping in the Bucket......Page 111 Drill......Page 123 Dropping the Rear Shoulder......Page 125 Having a Weak Top Hand......Page 126 Chasing Pitches up in the Zone......Page 127 Drill......Page 139 8 Finding a Hitting Approach That Works......Page 141 Drill......Page 145 Drill......Page 157 About the Authors......Page 161 Presents a fun and interactive way for parents and players to record - and learn lessons from - each swing. This spiral-bound organizer shows you how to: record pitches using scoring shorthand; mark down the location of hits using simple field diagrams; keep track of counts and at-bat results; and determine batting average with basic arithmetic.