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     It is recommended that you go right to the good stuff.  Click the Know Your Position button to learn all about playing the different positions.  Clicking on the Practice button will bring you to suggestions on how to practice what you learn.  If you ever wonder about the use of pronouns throughout the site, then come back here to read below.  Otherwise, play well.

Learning Baseball

     This site is designed to make the individual player a better team player.  By shaping yourself into the best player you can be, you can become a team leader.  A positive attitude is contagious, and you get it from the confidence gained from earnest practice.  Off-the-field learning, like from this site, along with mental imagery, not only improves your confidence, but also develops your actual abilities. This site will help you with all of these aspects of your game,  and bring you needed knowledge to help your team (our team) win, regardless of the score.
     I put this site together for the use of my Junior Little League team, but it can be used by anyone with an interest to learn more about baseball, and especially anyone who would like to help others learn about baseball.  Knowledge presented here is gained from years of enjoying the game of baseball, and admittedly can be erroneous.  I'm not claiming authority, nor am I trying to sell anything on this site.  The intention is to develop a free site where anyone interested could learn how to play baseball.
     This site is not one to learn, for example, which foot to step out of the batter's box with when you're heading for first.  But it is one that will tell you that the left foot is the most efficient one to tag first base with when you're rounding the bag to second.  So we won't always get into the very basic basics.  It is assumed that the reader knows them or can find them elsewhere (if not, ask here).  And more important than that is the fact that the key to learning baseball is having a good coach.  Find one, and learn.

Our Team

     Whenever the Team is mentioned throughout this site it includes everyone.  Those on the field, those on the bench.  Anyone who does his best, anyone who tries to do his best, as well as anyone who would rather not.  If you disagree with the slackers approach to the game, show him a better way by your own example.  To play on a non-professional team you don't have to be great, but there is always a difference between playing on a team and playing with a team.  The latter is the way to championships.  Make it your job to see that every one of your teammates does his best for the team.  This can be accomplished not by threats, but by example and encouragement.  Learn to respect the efforts of your teammates.  If they are trying their best to make plays because baseball is fun, do all you can to help them succeed.  Show them how you "step it up" when the game requires the added effort, and encourage everyone's participation.  You are a team leader.  Lead them to winning ways, and the game will take care of itself.

Our Language

      It's a shame that our paternal society hasn't developed a genderless pronoun, one that signifies either a male or female individual.  Although baseball is by no means a male-only sport, this site will take advantage of our etymological deficiencies and use male pronouns when talking about our team, and female pronouns when referring to our opponents.  This in no way is intended to portray a  chauvinistic belief, but rather to avail a writing style from the limits of our language.  I too wish that our language had a non-gender pronoun better than "it."  But, since our team only has guys on it, we'll use "him" and "his," thus eliminating the need for the dreaded his/her keystrokes.  
     Also, when we speak of our teammates, we'll use symbols like 1st and 2nd; and when we speak of the bases, we'll use words like first and second.  It's just the way we'll do it.  The number and letter symbols will designate the persons of our team, and the position names will mean the position.  Enough about this language disclaimer.  This is why I mentioned above to skip this page and get right to the good stuff.

Contact Information

     You are always encouraged to contact me if you have some way of helping us with this site.  Also, let me know your opinions.  And please don't let me keep erroneous information posted for students of the game of baseball.  God knows there is enough misinformation out there.  Let me know where I'm wrong, and help develop this site.  That goes for you English majors out there too.

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