The Coaches' Library

• There is a detailed review of many soccer books located here (on this website) 

• 25 Moves and Exercises
  by Jason Vittrup - Jason takes you through 25 soccer moves that will help you develop and improve your game. Each move has key teaching points and specific exercises to help you master the skill. This is a great resource to enhance your on-the-ball skills. Running time is 49 minutes
  
• Coaching 6, 7 and 8 Year Olds
  by Bobby Howe and Tony Waiters - It has lots of exercises and games designed specifically for the beginning skill levels of 6, 7 and 8 year olds. This video uses Micro Soccer (Three on a side) to teach beginning players how to play the game. The 3-a-side method is the same teaching method used by the U-7 ASYA leagues. Running time is 34 minutes
  
• Pele: The Master and His Method
  Pele reveals all the skills which elevated him to the top of the soccer world. (1987) Running time is 60 minutes.
  
• Soccer Fundamentals for Players and Coaches  - 3 Tape Series by Wiel Coerver - A book by one of the most respected soccer coaches (Dutch) in the world.  One of the best buys any soccer coach could make.  It is amazing that you can teach 5 and 6 year old kids to do the moves. 

• Softball for Girls & Women
  by Gladys C. Meyer - A complete guide for players and coaches to throwing, catching, fielding, pitching, defense, batting, base running, offense, training & conditioning, injuries, equipment, & organizing to play. (796.357 MEY at Wheeler Basin Library) - This book is dated 1982 and seems to be complete but it is missing some of the newer techniques brought on by the increase in popularity of Girls Softball.
  
• SOFTBALL - Fast and Slow Pitch
  by Mario Pagnoni and Gerald Robinson - I really liked this book. It explained the differences in coaching fast and slow pitch as well as the differences in the fundamentals required for each game. This is a Spalding sports library book. This same series covers baseball, soccer, basketball and football. It is a good, inexpensive primer that covers all aspects of the game. The softback book retails for $12.95. (796.357 PAG at Wheeler Basin Library)

• The Art of Hitting .300
  Charley Lau with Alfred Glossbrenner, Revised by Tony LaRussa - This is the Bible of hitting. Charley Lau is considered as one of, if not THE, best baseball hitting instructor. (796.357 LAU at Wheeler Basin Library) This is must reading for any coach at any level. Buy your own copy and wear it out.
  
• Youth League Baseball: coaching and playing
  by Skip Bertman (L.S.U. head coach)- This is a Spalding sports library book. This same series covers soccer, basketball and football. It is a good, inexpensive primer. The softback book retails for $9.95. (an excellent value)
  
• The Major League Way to Play Baseball
  by Bob Carroll - (796.357 CAR at Wheeler Basin Library) This is an official Major League Baseball Book. It has step by step instructions for all phases of the game. I'm really beginning to like this book more and more every day. It is very useful on the youth level.
  
• The Art of Pitching
  by Tom Seaver - This is a very in-depth book probably more useful at the high school level. It does provide frame by frame analysis of all phases of pitching. (796.357 SEA at Wheeler Basin Library)
  
• Ask Dale Murphy
  by Dale Murphy - Advice to young baseball players by the former Atlanta Braves all-star player - Great reading for kids in the fourth grade and higher. (796.357 MUR at Wheeler Basin Library)
  
• Official Little League Baseball Rules in Pictures
  by Little League Baseball, Inc.
  
• Men at Work - The Craft of Baseball and Bunts
  George F. Will - These books are not actual coaching manuals but are excellent books about the best coaches and players in professional baseball. Until I read Men at Work I had no idea just how complicated a game baseball was. Bunts is a collection of George Will's baseball columns.
  
• Baseball's Greatest Managers
  by Harvey Frommer - More of a book about the history and background of baseball.
  
• Jon Hoelter's Illustrated Hitting Guide
  
• Hit and Run Baseball
  by Rod Delmonico -
  
• Coaching Baseball: Skills and Drills
  by Bragg A. Stockton
  
• Baseball just for Kids: Skills, Strategies and Stories to Make You a Better Ballplayer by Jerry Kasoff
  
• The Baseball Handbook for Coaches and Players
  by Jim Depel
  
• High Percentage Baserunning
  by Harold S. Southworth - This book is a little more in-depth than most youth coaches want to be but if you want to have better baserunners than the other team you can't beat it. Good for base coaches.
  
• The Complete Baseball Player
  by Dave Winfield - A good book by a great player
  
• Defensive Baseball
  by Rod Delmonico -
  
• Baseball Techniques in Pictures
  by Michael Brown
  
• Be the Best You Can Be
  by Kirby Puckett - an inspirational book by the former Twin.

• Youth League Basketball: coaching and playing
  This is a Spalding sports library book. This same series covers baseball, softball, soccer and football. It is a good, inexpensive primer. The soft back book retails for $9.95