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Jeff Burroughs' Little League Instructional Guide (Paperback)
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Borroughs, who had a 15-year career in the major leagues, is also a former Little League player and coach of the 1992 and 1993 Little League World Series Champions in Long Beach, California. Obviously, he has the credentials to write an instructional baseball book for coaches and parents of young players. Burroughs emphasizes methods to teach hitting, pitching, and fielding skills and outlines practice schedules, drills, and game simulations. He also stresses that baseball should be fun and that screaming at young players over mistakes is a much bigger mistake. There are many instructional books available, and this is as good as any. Libraries without a similar title should consider.
John Maxymuk, Rutgers Univ. Lib., Camden, N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
As millions of Little League fans around the world know, Jeff Burroughs is coach of the two-time Little League world champions, the Long Beach All-Stars. In Jeff Burroughs' Little League Instructional Guide, he shares with other coaches and parents the lessons he has learned in the big and little leagues, on the field, on the bench, and in the dugout.

Product Details
  • Paperback: 157 pages
  • Publisher: Bonus Books; 1st ed edition (April 25, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1566250099
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566250092
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars 5 customer reviews (5 customer reviews)
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing - Too Much Text/Not Enough Illustration, January 14, 2000
By Jeff Frese "snowyriverman" (Stockton, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I tried my hardest to like this book overall, but just couldn't. I was very disappointed after having gone through the book twice.

Well Dones: Burrough's spends 44 pages on defensive game situations - who should cover what, if the ball is hit here, and there are runners here & there. The best part of this section, is that it is covered with diagrams. Burroughs also covers approximately 22 baseball drills for practices (see Opportunities for Improvement also).

Opportunities For Improvement: The biggest disappointment is Jeff's lack of use of pictures and diagrams to explain what he is trying to describe in text form. Even in the section describing the 22 drills, they are no pic's or illustrations. Pictures and diagrams are a must for this type of book. The cover of this book says, "Fully Illustrated". There is a section in the middle of the book with pictures covering different topics that, unfortunately, do not match anything nearby. Also unfortunate is the fact that this photo section leaves way too much to be desired - nothing new here. There are no other photos in the book besides this one section. Jeff spends only 1/2 page on each position and covers the rest of the defensive positions in general terms. Very disappointing. I started the chapter on "Practice" with great enthusiasm and felt great about most of it until I read two sections that, as a Little League coach for the past many years, found very hard to believe: Jeff says the team should not take batting practice during any of your practices and to only do this before each game by having the team show up 1 1/2 hours before game time. Yeah, right! (Maybe if all our games were on weekends, and there were no games beforehand.) Jeff's suggested practice schedule runs from 4 PM to 6:30 PM. Most coaches would be real lucky to have that kind of time. On the cover of the book, it states that the book is written for Coaches and Parents - but throughout most of the book, Jeff is teaching directly to the player. There's nothing new or exciting in this book. This is definitely not even a good beginning coach's book. If I had to make one point - it is the serious lack of illustrations and pictures for the amount of text that Jeff uses. I wanted desperately to like this book and was looking forward to some great drills & technique suggestions for my Little Leaguers (and besides I was a fan of his when he was with the A's), but I just didn't find it here, even after going through it twice.

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