By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck We get asked for rules templates for youth baseball leagues. Here is one for what a league termed its “Rookie B” Division, which is a non-competitive coach-pitch level. Most of these rules would also...
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Role Models – Part 2
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck In 2002, I was managing a baseball all-star team of 9 and 10 year-olds. We continued to win games, and this meant I had to continually come up with things to keep the players...
Role Models
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck I stumbled upon a Little League blog and began reading comments. The posts that were written were some of the most outrageous I’ve ever seen regarding a youth sports league. It is amazing that...
Helping kids handle tough or abusive coaches
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck and Supportive Parent A reader wrote in and asked my opinion on a very touchy subject. A dad sent an email describing a girls’ high school coach who exhibited angry, sarcastic and belittling behavior...
Why Enforce the Rules if You’re Not Keeping Score?
By Brian Gotta, President of CoachDeck Local Leagues are starting tee-ball programs across the country, which means two things: A lot of parents who lack experience will be coaching a team for the first time, and a lot of kids...