Baseball Hitting Mechanics Explained: A Parent’s Guide
About this ebook
Written by expert Dan Russell, Baseball Hitting Mechanics Explained is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for coaches, parents, and players seeking to improve all aspects of hitting. The book comes complete with dozens of detailed and effective batting drills and 50 color photographs in order to cover everything a batter could ever want to know about hitting a baseball.
Below are some of the many topics the book covers:
- Bat Discipline
- Having a Strategy
- Knowing the Strike Zone
- Bat Weight and Length
- The Grip
- The Feet
- Stances
- Measuring the Strike Zone
- Measuring the Sweet Spot
- Bat Positions
- Hand Speed and Elbows
- Bat Speed
- Contact Hitting
- Bunting – Sacrifice and Drag
About the author
Dan Russell is a long standing member of the American Baseball Coaches Association and is the president of a Canadian baseball association. In addition to coaching various levels of youth baseball teams, Mr. Russell is a regular attendant and speaker at baseball conferences and clinics throughout North America. In the formation of his baseball books, Mr. Russell was assisted by comments and interviews given by coaches Skip Bertman, Ron Polk, Mike McRae, and Tony Rasmus, among numerous others. Mr. Russell has compiled a unique and insightful look into the world of big time pitchers’ minds and then documented these ideas for the benefit of the young baseball players of tomorrow.
