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The Matheny Manifesto

A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

By: Mike Matheny,Jerry B. Jenkins

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The Matheny Manifesto

A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

By: Mike Matheny,Jerry B. Jenkins

St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's New York Times bestselling manifesto about what parents, coaches, and athletes get wrong about sports; what we can do better; and how sports can teach eight keys to success in sports and life. Mike Matheny was just forty-one, without professional managerial experience and looking for a next step after a successful career as a Major League catcher, when he succeeded the legendary Tony La Russa as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012. While Matheny has enjoyed immediate success, leading the Cards to the postseason four times in his first four years−a Major League record−people have noticed something else about his life, something not measured in day-to-day results. Instead, it’s based on a frankly worded letter he wrote to the parents of a Little League team he coached, a cry for change that became an Internet sensation and eventually a “manifesto.” The tough-love philosophy Matheny expressed in the letter contained his throwback beliefs that authority should be respected, discipline and hard work rewarded, spiritual faith cultivated, family made a priority, and humility considered a virtue. In The Matheny Manifesto, he builds on his original letter by first diagnosing the problem at the heart of youth sports−it starts with parents and coaches−and then by offering a hopeful path forward. Along the way, he uses stories from his small-town childhood as well as his career as a player, coach, and manager to explore eight keys to success: leadership, confidence, teamwork, faith, class, character, toughness, and humility. From “The Coach Is Always Right, Even When He’s Wrong” to “Let Your Catcher Call the Game,” Matheny’s old-school advice might not always be popular or politically correct, but it works. His entertaining and deeply inspirational book will not only resonate with parents, coaches, and athletes, it will also be a powerful reminder, from one of the most successful new managers in the game, of what sports can teach us all about winning on the field and in life.

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The Matheny Manifesto

A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

By: Mike Matheny,Jerry B. Jenkins

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A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

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Hence My Eyes are Turned Toward You

Confronting Depression with Faith and The Prayer of Jehoshaphat

By: Mike Eisenbath

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Hence My Eyes are Turned Toward You

Confronting Depression with Faith and The Prayer of Jehoshaphat

By: Mike Eisenbath

During the winter of 2001-02, something provoked the roaring lion of depression inside me. I probably never will know for certain what triggered the disease. What I do know is the life that has unfolded these last seven years -- a life with major, chronic depression as a constant companion -- has been much different than I ever would have designed for myself and my family. to call it a learning experience would be understating that life. Depression is powerfully real. It can be scary, life-threatening, relentless. As you will read in Hence My Eyes, all of that and more have been the reality in our home. I wish I never would have had to put my wife, children, family and friends through all the fear, worry and tears. Still ... dare I say ... You will read that there actually are times when I feel grateful for the experience. Everyone, including those who have to experience the roaring lion's presence inside themselves every day, can meet God in a newer, deeper, more fulfilling way. By the grace of God, I have learned that – in part through the biblical tale of Jehoshaphat, who has become a friend, a role model of sorts, a prayer partner. In discovering his prayer, I have learned to say it with him. and I say it with him, I think, in a personal and cooperative way that makes managing a life with depression hopeful and possible. Maybe you suffer from depression or love someone who does. Or perhaps you have gone through something else similarly arduous and stressful, even jeopardizing your very life itself. Whatever the case, I hope my experience with depression and the Prayer of Jehoshaphat can help carry you to a better place.

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1438912986

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9781438912981

The Savvy Guide to Fantasy Sports

By: Michael Harmon,Mike Harmon

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The Savvy Guide to Fantasy Sports

By: Michael Harmon,Mike Harmon

Taking a fresh approach to fantasy sports, this guide covers strategies and techniques both unique to specific sports, and trends applicable to all sports, while providing tips to help the casual player get the most out of every game.

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Indy Tech Publishing

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0790613131

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Getting Away with Bloody Murder: J. B. Brockman, the Best Criminal Lawyer in Texas

By: Mike Vance

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Getting Away with Bloody Murder: J. B. Brockman, the Best Criminal Lawyer in Texas

By: Mike Vance

These true crime and murder stories between 1895 and 1910 revolve around one untested lawyer who rises from shady character to preeminent defense attorney in Houston. James Brockman seemingly appears out of nowhere to represent clients from gang leaders to jilted spouses, from wealthy storekeepers to drunken on-duty policemen. There are murder cases of jarring violence in which multiple people are shot down in a train station or a courthouse, and there are cases of uncommon humanity and sadness. The stories of these cases cross racial lines, and several tell an instructive story of the segregated Texas that affected so many lives. His career gained national recognition, including his involvement in the most famous American murder case of the young twentieth century, when he himself was murdered in Houston"--

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Arcadia Publishing

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1455626201

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All the Good in Sports

True Stories That Go Beyond the Headlines

By: Mike Sandrolini

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All the Good in Sports

True Stories That Go Beyond the Headlines

By: Mike Sandrolini

True Stories That Go Beyond the Headlines Stories about athletes and coaches usually focus on their championships or their scandals. All the Good in Sports features 20 contemporary sports personalities who go beyond the headlines to candidly share how their relationship with Christ has helped them cope with a variety of difficulties, both professional and personal, and how in Christ they found victory in their personal lives. Many professing Christians in the sports world have achieved wealth and notoriety, but lifes luxuries do not exempt them from life's difficulties. Name recognition and personal fortune cannot rescue one whose marriage is on the rocks, one facing substance abuse, or one facing disease or even death. The sports heroes featured in All the Good in Sports are not super human.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459606620

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9781459606623

Alien

How Operational Art Devoured Strategy

By: Justin Kelly,Mike Brennan (Ph.D.)

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Alien

How Operational Art Devoured Strategy

By: Justin Kelly,Mike Brennan (Ph.D.)

Preface -- Introduction -- The time before -- The expansion of war and the birth of operational art -- Operational art in Germany -- Operational art gets a name : Tukhachevskiy and deep attacks -- The British school : bloodless war and "strategic paralysis"--Operational art : the next steps -- Conclusion : operational art is not the whole of warfare -- only a discretionary part of it.

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Strategic Studies Institute

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1584874023

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9781584874027

Sydney Omarr's Cooking with Astrology

By: Sydney Omarr,Mike Roy

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Sydney Omarr's Cooking with Astrology

By: Sydney Omarr,Mike Roy

Follow the stars' path to gourmet pleasure with a world-famous astrologer anda celebrated chef. Includes 225 easy-to-follow, fun recipes, with suggestionsfor each sun sign. Illustrations.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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1567185061

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Touching All the Bases

A Complete Guide to Baseball Success on and off the Field

By: Mike Greene

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Touching All the Bases

A Complete Guide to Baseball Success on and off the Field

By: Mike Greene

What Im trying to do with this book is give coaches as much information as possible to be a complete coach. What drills to use, how to handle a pitching staff, how do I incorporate baserunning into practice and many things I slowly learned coaching baseball . This book was put together in the hopes of saving a lot of trial and error by youth and high school coaches who may have some questions in a few areas, and to give insight into what it takes for your child or players to get to the college level or beyond. This book explains in detail what I have learned over 25 years of coaching the greatest game ever invented. This book is for all levels 10-20 years old. It will explain what it takes to put together a solid practice plan, offensive and defensive drills and strategies, coaching all 9 positions with daily fundamentals and drills, baserunning, nutrition, and strength and conditioning outlines. How do I keep a practice interesting? How do I coach my catchers if I never played catcher? What do you do for outfielders at practice? How do I defend bunts and first and third situations? What do college coaches look for in my high school player? How do I coach pitchers?, and what is the best way to deal with parents? This book will answer questions that I wished I had known I started out coaching baseball.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499033931

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The Storm Is Upon Us

How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

By: Mike Rothschild

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The Storm Is Upon Us

How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

By: Mike Rothschild

I hope everyone reads this book. It has become such a crucial thing for all of us to understand." —Erin Burnett, CNN "An ideal tour guide for your journey into the depths of the rabbit hole that is QAnon. It even shows you a glimmer of light at the exit." —Cullen Hoback, director of HBO's Q: Into the Storm Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it’s going next? On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like “the calm before the storm”—then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by “Q Clearance Patriot,” who claimed to be in “military intelligence,” began the elaboration on their own. In the days that followed, Q’s wild yarn explaining Trump's remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No. Why not? Who were these rapt listeners? How do they reconcile their worldview with the America they see around them? Why do their numbers keep growing? Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, has been collecting their stories for years, and through interviews with QAnon converts, apostates, and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics, he is uniquely equipped to explain the movement and its followers. In The Storm Is Upon Us, he takes readers from the background conspiracies and cults that fed the Q phenomenon, to its embrace by right-wing media and Donald Trump, through the rending of families as loved ones became addicted to Q’s increasingly violent rhetoric, to the storming of the Capitol, and on. And as the phenomenon shows no sign of calming despite Trump’s loss of the presidency—with everyone from Baby Boomers to Millennial moms proving susceptible to its messaging—and politicians starting to openly espouse its ideology, Rothschild makes a compelling case that mocking the seeming madness of QAnon will get us nowhere. Rather, his impassioned reportage makes clear it's time to figure out what QAnon really is — because QAnon and its relentlessly dark theory of everything isn’t done yet.

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Melville House

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1612199291

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9781612199290

From The Stick to The Cove

My Six Decades with the San Francisco Giants

By: Mike Murphy,Chris Haft,Willie Mays

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From The Stick to The Cove

My Six Decades with the San Francisco Giants

By: Mike Murphy,Chris Haft,Willie Mays

Day in, day out, Mike Murphy has been a constant presence with the San Francisco Giants since the team moved west in 1958. The clubhouse at Oracle Park bears his name, and in the jubilant aftermath of the team's 2010 World Series victory, Buster Posey told Murphy, "We did it for you, we got your ring." If you know the Giants, you know "Murph." In From the Stick to the Cove, the beloved longtime clubhouse manager reflects on over six decades of incredible memories, from getting his start as a bat boy and first meeting his idol Willie Mays, to unexpected celebrity encounters, to his role as a father figure for more recent generations of Giants.

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Triumph Books

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1641254068

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9781641254069

Grinders

Baseball's Intrepid Infantry

By: Mike Capps,Chuck Hartenstein

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Grinders

Baseball's Intrepid Infantry

By: Mike Capps,Chuck Hartenstein

Grinders: Baseball’s Intrepid Infantry tells the tales of the game's unheralded foot soldiers who took the hard knocks road, bouncing between the Show and obscurity, never quite achieving their dreams, all for a chance to play the game they love. On a brutally humid summer night in 1960, a nine-year-old Mike Capps was sitting with his grandfather in the rickety, mosquito-infested Burnett Field across the Trinity River from the twinkling lights of the concrete and steel towers of downtown Dallas. When he glanced at his grandfather’s scoresheet, something caught his attention. His grandfather had made check marks alongside names of six or seven players for both clubs. “I also want you to pay attention to the names I have checked here,” his grandfather said. “These guys will travel back and forth between Dallas and Kansas City and Minneapolis and Boston all summer. You’ll even see their names in the box scores. They aren’t stars, but they are the engine that drives baseball’s bus.” “Drives baseball’s bus, drives baseball’s bus?” The comment buried itself in Capps’ psyche for decades, and, sixty years later, formed the basic idea for this book. What his grandfather called baseball’s “engine” we now call “grinders.” The back-and-forth roller coaster ride between professional baseball’s minor leagues and its nirvana, Major League Baseball, remains perplexingly difficult for a multitude of great players and their families. Players like Deacon Jones, Brian Mazone, and Lorenzo Bundy battled their way to a chance in the big leagues and hung on as long as they could. Some shared the love of the game with their sons, who became Grinders in their own right. Grinders fill every roster at every level, plugging away year after year. Without their grit, determination, and persistence, there would be no stars. These are their stories.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1736839055

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9781736839058

The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists

By: Mike Gastineau

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The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists

By: Mike Gastineau

With loyal fans supporting their major sports teams in the Seahawks (NFL), Mariners (MLB) - plus a rabid fan base for University of Washington jocks - Seattle is a great place for a sports debate. Local sports-radio talker Mike Gastineau teams up with longtime sportswriters Steve Rudman and Art Thiel to bring Seattle sports history to life with this provocative and enjoyable - not to mention debatable - book of lists. They also enlist list contributions by famous players, coaches, and Seattle celebrities including Mike Holmgren, Matt Hasselbeck, Ichiro Suzuki, George Karl, Pearl Jam, Kevin Calabro, Sir Mix-a-Lot, and more.

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1458779742

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9781458779748

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Companion

By: Mike Flaherty,Corinne Marrinan,Anthony E. Zuiker

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Companion

By: Mike Flaherty,Corinne Marrinan,Anthony E. Zuiker

Fans can go behind the yellow police tape in the official companion to TVUs most-watched drama, featuring fifty of the most explosive episodes.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743467418

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9780743467414

Colfax Township

By: Anita Price Davis,Mike Rhyne

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Colfax Township

By: Anita Price Davis,Mike Rhyne

Located at the Rutherford-Cleveland County line, Colfax Township was a response to the 1868 state mandate to divide North Carolina counties into townships. Colfax Township took its name from Schuyler Colfax, the 17th vice president of the United States (18691873). The 53.1 square miles of the township remain mainly rural, and most residents have lived here for five years or more. Such stability generates community pride and considerable participation in Big Days, the Colfax Free Fair, the Fiddlers Conventions, and other celebrations. The Colfax Museum reflects the interest in the area. Images of America: Colfax Townshipa pictorial retrospectivecelebrates the life and times of the area.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439626618

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9781439626610

Columbus Radio

By: Mike Adams

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Columbus Radio

By: Mike Adams

Two professors and a preacher invented Columbus radio. It began with science experiments in classrooms and a minister's desire to expand beyond his churchgoing audience. By 1922, government licenses had been issued for WEAO at Ohio State University and WJD at Denison University. At this same time, a Baptist minister went on the air for an hour each Sunday morning using a 10-watt transmitter licensed as WMAN. In this story of Columbus radio, the work of the professors and the preacher will evolve into radio with advertiser-supported programs of information and entertainment. Three important radio stations will serve a growing Columbus radio audience in different ways: WEAO becomes WOSU, a national pioneer in using radio for teaching; WMAN becomes WCOL and in the 1960s is number one in audience size; and CBS affiliate WBNS becomes the class act of Columbus radio, retaining the major share of local listeners for many decades. Including many other stations of lesser influence, the illustrated stories of Columbus radio are told in this book.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439658765

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Inside Sports College Basketball

By: Mike Douchant

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Inside Sports College Basketball

By: Mike Douchant

Viewed by more fans than either the World Series or the Super Bowl, college basketball's championship series is the single biggest sporting event in America today. This is the most comprehensive source on the sport, covering not just the 17-day NCAA championship, but every aspect of college basketball in the U.S. as well. 200 photos.

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Gale Cengage

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078761033X

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9780787610333

Inside Sports College Basketball

By: Michael Douchant,Mike Douchant

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Inside Sports College Basketball

By: Michael Douchant,Mike Douchant

College basketball expert Mike Douchant's passion for the game is contagious.In this insightful and highly readable guide, he captures all the excitement, exploring college basketball in exhaustive detail from its early years to thepresent. 200 photos.

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1578590094

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9781578590094

How to Bike Better

By: Daniel Honig,Mike Fraysse

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How to Bike Better

By: Daniel Honig,Mike Fraysse

This book explains such biking techniques as use of gears and braking.

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150

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0345318463

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9780345318466

The 1996 Information Please Sports Almanac

By: Mike Meserole

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The 1996 Information Please Sports Almanac

By: Mike Meserole

Profiles the record breakers and record makers, statistics and facts for professional and amateur sports, as well as highlighting both summer and winter olympics.

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Thomas Allen Publishers

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0395665671

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9780395665671

The Dad Coach

How to Lead Kids to Succeed On and Off the Baseball Field

By: Mike Matheny,Jerry B. Jenkins

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The Dad Coach

How to Lead Kids to Succeed On and Off the Baseball Field

By: Mike Matheny,Jerry B. Jenkins

The New York Times bestselling author of The Matheny Manifesto offers the definitive guide to coaching youth baseball and instilling positive values on and off the field. Long before he became manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals, Mike Matheny grasped the core values of what really mattered when it came to playing baseball. It wasn't attention from fans or the trophy at the end of a season that guided his morals, but the hard-won discipline, labor, and humility that he incorporated into every game he played. Now, in The Dad Coach, Matheny puts his philosophy into action and provides a step-by-step template for coaches and parents to develop solid fundamentals and a strong sense of character in their players, including: Age-specific drills and exercises to develop skills, along with practice plans to help young ballplayers improve Game preparation and evaluation techniques to help coaches stay on track and keep kids engaged Advice on making coaching a meaningful experience and investment of time More than seventy QR codes leading to instructional videos featuring Matheny and other Dad Coach advocates Drawing on Matheny’s playing and coaching expertise at every level of the game, The Dad Coach is an engaging and essential resource for anyone, regardless of experience, who wants to coach their players to success in baseball and life.

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Hence My Eyes are Turned Toward You

Confronting Depression with Faith and The Prayer of Jehoshaphat

By: Mike Eisenbath

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Confronting Depression with Faith and The Prayer of Jehoshaphat

By: Mike Eisenbath

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