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Start 'Em Right ... Keep 'Em Playing

March 24, 2009

Does life come with a user’s manual? For those who see America’s favorite pastime as a metaphor for life, Start 'Em Right ... Keep 'Em Playing comes as close as you get to required reading for little league baseball and softball. After spending years of observing the effects performance pressure and tyrannical coaches had on the future development of kids, Michael Schmidt, a softball coach of 15 years, wrote the ultimate how-to guide to develop kids into better players from day one. In his first Author Talk interview, Schmidt discusses what makes the lessons learned in Start 'Em Right unique from any other book on little league baseball and softball.

The father of four daughters, Schmidt has hiked, biked, camped, and shared many hours on the softball field as a coach and a dad. Filled with fun skills and drills that have been proven to work, Schmidt drew on his years as a successful educator and researcher to develop a book that teaches life lessons that go beyond playing the game. During this interview, he also discusses why Start 'Em Right was written not only for coaches, but parents and grandparents as well.

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