Hit! Run! Score!

This video encourages participation, fun and improvement of indivdiual and team baseball skills. The author has done a great job intertwining fun "gym" type activities with baseball skills.
The video goes through numerous drills with a very articulate
narrator who helps keep your interest. The drills are very creative as they are given such names as: circle drill, lead drill, line master drill etc. Some fun games are also shown such as baseballfootball, hole in the diamond and so on. The quality of the video is excellent. Another valuable asset of this
baseball video is that it shows you what to do if no field is available and a parking lot practice is needed. Sample practices are given at the end of the video. I have used this video extensively with my team comprised of 10,11 & 12 year olds.
I urge parents, coaches and leagues to get a hold of this video so no coach can make any excuses for not practicing.
Other bonuses are some creative drills that show some great batting practices along with a game of Home Run derby with a twist which equalizes it for all ages. The video is not the most in depth with exact skills but at this age, keeping interest, is the number one goal and the drills in this video do the job. "The 59 Minute Baseball Practice" is an excellent item!

All Around Excellence!!!!

The content of this video has been used for about three full weeks since I purchased it. My team consists of 9 & 10 year old players. The video contains 34 drills and runs about 32-35 minutes long. Having purchased two other baseball instructional videos, I find "The 59 Minute Baseball Practice" to be of great value and organization and by far the best of the three. It is obvious that most youth baseball coaches do not spend a career planning practices so most of us tend to do the two hour batting at each practice and feel we have accomplished a lot. What this video does is combine fun drills with baseball skills. It makes for a very refreshing and creative item that youth coaches of players 7-13 (maybe 14) should receive the most benefit. If your team is like mine, they won't love every drill but the ones they do like, they will ask you about the second they get to practice.
A lot of the actual organization is excellent and safety seems to be properly taken into account. The real brilliance of this video is it will open your own mind to be creative and invent your own drills from the ones shown. In fact, the narrator recommends to be creative and change the drills to fit your team's "likes and skill level". I have done this and was quite surprised at the positive feedback from my players. This is a great item to purchase. Buy it and get the remote ready while viewing. Then write down 4-5 drills you want to use and go out with your team and do them and you'll be amazed at the happy faces you see. Oh yea, a lot of the drills can be done in the backyard for a parent and child. Will this video teach your team how to turn the perfect 6-4-3 double play? Probably not. But it will give you exactly what the description says: a very good alternate to the traditional boring practice with lots of great stuff.

Full of great ideas, but best for coaches of older LL kids

This is a great video, and I found plenty drills that I used with my teams. However, the drills are best suited for older Little Leaguers (11 and 12 years and up). The drills are not well suited for 8 and 9 year olds, who lack the physical and mental maturity (which is the level that I am coaching). However, I was able to adapt some of the drills to the younger players.

I'd love to see him make a video for PARENTS to help their kids outside of formal practice time, since time restraints make individual instruction difficult for the coaches during practice.