Book excerpt: It is easy to know how a skill should be performed. We see it every day in professional baseball. What we haven''t figured out yet is how to teach skills consistently to all ball players no matter their talent level or age. I have pieced this puzzle together over the last eight years and have come up with a teaching philosophy that has produced phenomenal results for the boys I have coached. This book is about teaching baseball correctly from day one. It deals with most of the aspects of the game that a youth coach must handle during the season. It covers the beginner player to the more accomplished youth player around twelve years old. My goal is to give coaches the skills and direction they will need to teach at each age group and give experienced coaches the ability to move their players to the higher level. Over the last several years parent after parent and coach after coach has said, ''people need to know what you know, coaches need to teach the way you teach.'' I wrote this book to share my experiences and knowledge.