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History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
3) The natural
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A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," he comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him to lead his team to the pennant.
4) Moneyball
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The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
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This video explores the most fundamental aspects of throwing a baseball. Covered in this program are the grip, the wind-up, the release and the follow through. Special attention is given to the importance of balance and helping youth pitchers understand that throwing a baseball is not limited to just the arm but the whole body. The video will go through a variety of individual and team pitching drills. Also addressed are arm injuries, injury prevention,...
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This video provides explanations of some of the most common and recurring baseball mistakes that happen in youth baseball games. If you are a coach or parent in a recreational or competitive youth baseball league, this will break down the individual and team mistakes that can be corrected by some basic practice principles that will result in better hitting, pitching, and fielding. Covered are: hitting, pitching, baserunning, fielding, coaching, backing...
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T-Ball Skills & Drills provides over 30 creative t-ball drills for young athletes as well as basic skills for teaching throwing, hitting, and fielding techniques in an easy-to-follow program.The video highlights: All t-ball basics, hitting fundamentals, fielding fundamentals, throwing fundamentals, correcting throwing flaws, baserunning fundamentals, drill organization, safety issues, hints for first time coaches & parents, fun games and more!
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This video addresses two of the most underrated skills in youth baseball:baserunning and bunting. The baserunning portion of the video covers the most basic skills, such as sliding and running techniques, while also addressing more advanced techniques, such as the delayed steal, tagging up, and reading signs. The bunting section covers the different types of bunting techniques, such as the square bunt and the pivot bunt. The video then shows strategies...
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This video covers a variety of strategies for the competitive youth baseball coach. Marty Schupak has drawn on his years of coaching and shared strategies with some of the most successful youth baseball coaches around who have won championships. Addressed are the most common strategic situations that occur in youth baseball games. Covered are cutoffs, back up situations, first and third offensive and defensive situations, the delayed steal, bunting...
13) Baseball Girls
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Forget everything you thought you knew about America's favorite pastime - the popular sport of baseball. From the early days of the Bloomer Girls to today's Colorado Silver Bullets, the classic film Baseball Girls features something new and different about women who love the sport. This interesting documentary focuses on various fans of the game, including 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills as well as 50-year-olds hitting home runs and 60-year-olds...
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This video contains 34 creative drills that can be used on the practice field with a team as well as by parents and children in their backyard. The drills focus on basics such as base running, hitting, fielding and are explained in detail with a voice over narrator. At the beginning of each drill, a baseball field icon appears with the location of players for that drill. The appropriate age group for this video is 7-12 years old. Older players can...
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This video provides infield team play, techniques and strategies for youth players. Almost 65% of all balls hit in youth baseball are to the infield. Coach Marty Schupak shares his most successful strategies, along with correct techniques that youth coaches should teach their players. This highly effective video covers: defending the steal, rundowns, bunt situations, communication techniques, wild throw backups, defense by position, pickoffs and more!...
16) The sandlot
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Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have...
19) Field of dreams
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Annie, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
20) The rookie
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When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...