Active for Life We provide information, advice, and resources for parents who want to raise active and successful kids. Being physically literate helps children to be better baseball players, and better athletes.
Here are our key articles about baseball and physical literacy: read article...
Glut of recent arm injuries highlights baseball's struggle to find answers Four out of 1,200. Daniel Hudson sat in Dr. James Andrews' office in Bradenton, Fla., his elbow having failed him again, his baseball career in flux, his greatest nightmare choking rational thought, and amid the fear of a doctor cutting open his arm for the second time within a year, he could process only those numbers: four out of 1,200. read article...
Baseball showcases: a great way to waste money and get injured To be blunt, while there are some exceptions to the rule, they rarely fit into development. In reality, they usually feed into destruction – at least in the context of pitchers. I openly discourage all our young athletes and parents from attending them almost without exception. read article...
Posted January 16, 2014
Is it Wise to Specialize? The greatest difference between our children’s sporting experience and our own is the rise of year round, sport specific organizations that ask – even require – season after season of participation in order to stay in the player development pipeline. read article...
Posted January 13, 2014
Parenting a talented kid: A new approach Quick thought experiment:
Let’s say you’re the parent of a kid who really, really loves skiing. (It could be soccer or chess or tennis or math, but let’s make it skiing.)... read article...
Baseball's little gestures mean a lot Taps, touches, tugs and tips... they carry complex messages among pitchers, batters, coaches and managers. The wordless codes can be raised to an art level, and are protected as if they are state secrets. read article...
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