Who are you? Where do you coach?

well, I haven't been a regular in quite awhile, but I'm starting to wake up from my hibernation!!

I coach a 15yr old travel team in NJ that will be picking up around Memorial Day, and then we'll play during the summer. I'm probably going to expand the team to include 16 yr olds as well, and we'll play in an AAU league here in northern NJ.

Big influences are Mike Epstein, Ron Polk, Baseball-Excellence, and of course, the many great coaches here on the hsbbw.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by goMO:
...Baseball-Excellence???...QUOTE]

Time to graduate and move on.

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Originally posted by Linear:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by goMO:
...Baseball-Excellence???...QUOTE]

Time to graduate and move on.

Cute. But completely useless and negative - IMO.

You should just answer the question if you want to add value.

Dont be bashful - throw it out there.

Adam,

Great idea IMO - I hope we get some interesting responses. There are ALOT of great coaches that frequent this site.

I am not one of them. LOL

Name - Itsinthegame
Coached about 20 years - ages 10-18 - in Westchester County NY. No longer coach - just watch alot of baseball now - all ages.

Biggest influence on approach to sports - Joe Frazier (Boxer) and Joe Casserella (HS Football Head Coach at North Rockland - in NY) and my Dad.

Biggest influence on fielding - Willie Randolph
Biggest influence on pitching - Bob Shaw
Biggest influence on hitting - Ted Williams

Biggest influence on understanding recruiting and the HS/college baseball transition - The HSBBWEB.

Who are you? TEACHERMAN
Where do you coach? ON THE INTERNET and in my BASEMENT......OUR LAB.
Who has influenced your philosophy on baseball the most? PAUL N Y M A N

Who I am ? Scooter Prince

Where do I coach ? Wingfield High School in Mississippi

Who has influenced my philosophy on baseball the most ? Ron Polk

I'm Mike Murray from New Jersey and I've coached Little League in my town for the past 10 years. Prior to that I was a coach at my old high school, Union Catholic in Scotch Plains, NJ. My biggest baseball influence was my college coach, Rich Bakker, until I signed onto the Baseball Web and know I'm realizing that there are a lot of things I can learn here.

fwiw, I found the HSBBW from Baseball-excellence.com. The people there, Bob Byrd and Tim Hopkins (THOP) are great people and strive to teach the right way. Development over winning, and learning the right way. Yes, it may be more for little leaguers, but still quite a valuable resource.

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Originally posted by goMO:
fwiw, I found the HSBBW from Baseball-excellence.com. The people there, Bob Byrd and Tim Hopkins (THOP) are great people and strive to teach the right way. Development over winning, and learning the right way. Yes, it may be more for little leaguers, but still quite a valuable resource.

Print this, put it in an envelope, and open it when the kids are 18-20 yrs. old.

It'll be too late, then, but decide whether you like what you were advised.

You know, people don't like my "attitude". They love friendly, happy go lucky, "I love baseball, too" discussions.

But, all that does is enable wrong information to continue to get passed on.

I will not tell you what you want to hear. I will tell you what you need to hear.

huh??



what part of my post didn't you agree with? development over winning (at an early age)?

As far as baserunning, defense, teamwork and sportsmanship, BBE (and their products including in-house videos, Mike Epstein products, Rob McDonald (catching), Don Beebe (speed)) is top-notch in my book.

not sure what you meant...

Linear,

The topic was about coaches - where they coach - and who influenced them.

It wasnt about your attitude or any of that other stuff.

Donny Buster

Selma, Alabama

Son Reid Buster graduated in 2005. ALL-State Baseball, Region MVP basketball

Owner Swingbuster Sports

Maker of Hands Back Hitter, StayBack Tee and others

Coach. LL, AllStar Teams JV Teams, etc



Hitting Coach Morgan Academy 3A AISA. Future Winners of the 3A State Championship ...maybe

Love working with kids....and setting up Linear for target practice

Hi guys. Just a little bit about me.

76-80 Newport sunset league player/coach
79-80 league champions.
76-81 R I Amateur baseball player/coach
77-80 State Champs
79-82 Ocean State Baseball player/coach
83-84 Juco volunteer assistant
85-86 High School volunteer assistant
88-02 Kissimmee, Fl L.L. Coach
94-02 Central Florida aau Assistant
00-04 High School Assistant
03-05 Doyle Academy trainer
04-present Private Instructor
Member ABCA

Influences: Many ABCA coaches
Coachric

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Originally posted by swingbuster:
....and setting up Linear for target practice

Just finished reading "Knight, My Story". Got it for Christmas. Read it in two days. Couldn't put it down.

Bobby Knight is a big fan of Tony LaRussa. Tony LaRussa is big into ARF (Animal Rescue Foundation). Knight is an avid hunter. One time he sent Tony a picture of the results of a hunting trip as a dig (friendly). Don't remember if it was deer, pheasant, turkey or whatever. Tony wrote back "good thing they didn't have guns". Meaning the game might have won if they did.

Buster.......this target has guns. Keep shooting and I'll keep shooting back.

Just shoot fair.........

Sometimes you playe MLB card in two ways

1.. You are wrong because ...Your swing doesn't compared to the best hitters in the world

2. You are wrong because ....Your comparing something the best players do against an amateur

Common response of many ***** nomes...your wrong when you speak.

OBJECTIVITY >>>>> GET SOME

Objectivity does not mean "tell him what he wants to hear".

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Objectivity does not mean "tell him what he wants to hear".

Wind from the east fish bite least.

The bigger they are the harder they fall.

Ugly is ugly gets

Seek and ye shall find. ......just not from Linear in this century... only 94 years left...

steve dixon
head baseball coach sullivan north high school
kingsport,tn.
philosophy is our own based on 20 years of trial and error
influences are many, many. always learning, adapting,etc.

Darrell Butler
Triad High School
Head Coach

Coaching:

East Alton Parks and Recreation 10 years. (Won first area coach of they year at 16 years old.)

East Alton Brewers, Assistant Coach (Semi Pro)

Edwardsville High School 12 years Hitting Coach.
We won:

1985-86 | R | 24 12 | Tom Pile
1986-87 | | 29 6 | Tom Pile
1987-88 | RS Q | 31 9 | Tom Pile
1988-89 | R | 31 6 | Tom Pile
1989-90 | RS Q *1 | 32 3 | Tom Pile
1990-91 | RS Q 2 | 39 1 | Tom Pile
1991-92 | R | 25 10 | Tom Pile
1992-93 | R | 26 8 | Tom Pile
1993-94 | | 25 8 | Tom Pile
1994-95 | | 27 4 | Tom Pile
1995-96 | R | 31 4 | Tom Pile
1996-97 | R | 35 4 | Tom Pile
1997-98 | RS Q *1 | 40 0 | Tom Pile

This included a 64 game winning streak, 2 state titles, Coaching the #1 team in the Nation (Collegiate Magazine - Also won the National Legion Title), and a state runner up. That final team went 40-0.

Major influences - Tom Pile (He won over 615 High School Games and at Edwardsville had 511 wins, 148 losses in 18 year for a winning percentage of .775)

Hitting - Charlie Lau (Winning Hitter and Art of Hitting .300 -- This gave me a start and then I moved on.) Tom Pile.

Pitching - Bob Shaw (Pitching - The Basic Fundamentals and Mechanics of Successful Pitching) and Tom House. We have used a lot of stuff from Tom House in recent years.

Coachb25,

That is a pretty awesome record. IMO.

Why is Tom Pile listed behind all those years?

Bravo!!

TEll em how the kids do the am workouts........man,,,,,,,

Linear,

The more relevant question - IMO - is what does this coach do to have such a successful program?

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Originally posted by Linear:
Why is Tom Pile listed behind all those years?

Tom Pile is listed behind those because he was the Head Coach and I was his Varsity Assistant. Linear, no program, including my own, is successful based soley upon the head coach. I was hired because of my work ethic and baseball knowledge into that program. My major responsibility was to coach hitting. We won a lot of game. Coach Pile would be the first to tell you, as he often was quoted in the paper, my role. I do the same for my assistants. BTW, all but one of them were former players of mine.

Settle down. I've never heard of the guy. Besides, you were just given another chance to pat yourself on the back...... And, of course, you took it.

Linear

You live in the area and you say you never heard of him--I live in the Northeast and know who he is as well as how good a baseball program they have at that school.

Watch the quicksand because I think you are sinking!!!

Coach May
South Granville High School
Creedmoor NC

Head JV Coach 1996 12-4 2nd Conf
Assistant Varsity Coach 1997-2000
Head Coach Varsity 2000-2003
Associate Head Coach 2004-Present

1997- 19-5 2nd conf
1998- 17-6 2nd conf
1999- 20-5 1st conf
2000- 21-5 1st conf
2001- 19-4 2nd conf
2002- 21-4 1st conf
2003- 16-8 2nd conf
2004- 20-6 2nd conf
2005- 22-3 1st conf

Coached several years of AAU before and during my HS coaching days. Won a couple of state titles in AAU. Finished in the top five in the nation a couple of times. Coached a couple of years in the college summer leagues. Coached a few years of Legion ball. Even coached some LL and T-Ball when my kids were small in the summer.

Accomplishments I am most proud of are helping many kids become young men on and off the field. Helping many young men find a place to play past HS my own players and other coaches players. Starting a 12 month baseball strength and conditioning program that everyone has a chance to be a part of. Twenty six young men last year 24 this year attended 100% of these workouts. All voluntary. They love it.

Biggest influences - My dad. David May. My HS coaches Baseball Joe Brogden. Football Monty Davis. My youth football coaches and my youth baseball coach Richard Reynolds.

I read alot. I go to clinics. I go to college camps and work some as well. I attend a ton of showcase events in the summer and fall watching baseball. I listen and talk to other coaches that I respect. I believe that experience is the great teacher in the game. I do not believe that teachers of the game can replace experience. I listen to parents that know the game and those that do not have kids playing. They have a great amount of knowledge that I respect. And they offer a perspective on things that a coach can not at times. We have not had a ton of talent over the last few years. Even though our school has produced some outstanding players over the years and a few have made the show. We have built a sucessfull program through hard work discipline and dedication. With the belief that a strong baseball foundation built on fundementals love of the game and team work will win out over more talented players more often than not. We do have some talented young players in our program right now. But the standard does not change. Build a program not a team.

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Originally posted by Linear:
Settle down. I've never heard of the guy. Besides, you were just given another chance to pat yourself on the back...... And, of course, you took it.

Please forgive me for misunderstanding your intent. You state on this site and the Post Dispatch site your knowledge of area baseball so I thought you'd know a coach that has been Nationally Acclaimed.

There, I deleted a portion of my previous post to make you happy. That's what we're about Richard. Making you happy.

coachb.
nothing wrong with being proud of what your kids and program has accomplished.
im very proud of our accomplishments the last 3 years. the credit goes to the kids and the assistants like you always state.
when you put in 17 and 18 hour days year round dedicated to your kids its alright to brag about them.

Let me say this for HS coaches-- with the stipend they receive for coaching the success has to be what it is all bout--if the coach cannot crow a little about his team who will ?

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Let me say this for HS coaches-- with the stipend they receive for coaching the success has to be what it is all bout--if the coach cannot crow a little about his team who will ?

I agree. It's got to be one of the toughest jobs around and I have the utmost respect for all you guys, state championships or not. Keep up the great work coaches. We appreciate your efforts!

Coach Merc
***'t Varsity Coach Brewster HS
Brewster, NY 1997-Present

Brewster LL manager 1990 -2002
President 2003&2004

Started Hudson Valley Royals 12+ travel program 2000

Co-founded The world Yacht Clippers 14U 2001
Present Head Coach of 18U and General Manager of Clippers Baseball Club 18U, 16U and 14U programs.

Have worked for Bill Holowaty, Eastern CT State Univ and Steve Trimper, Univ of Maine and Dan Gray, Pro Swing Baseball Acadamy.

Many influences, including my father who was my first coach and greatest baseball influence to the New Rochelle Robins Baseball Club whom I played my summers in college with and learned so much.

Head coach Cangelosi /Illinois Orioles 18u baseball club. I have coached at the HS level, the JC level and have had oppurtunities to coach at the pro level. Timing and $ not right.
Played on a State Champion HS team, played at #1 nationally ranked Triton JC (At that time)played in the Big Eight(at that time),
Played in two Connie Mack World Series, winning one. Had the opp to go on, won a A and a AA Championship in Pitts organazation. Throw in a couple of minor league all-star starts and 5 arm surguries and thats about it.

My biggest influences on my life ,
My Father, who never played the game , but by the time my career was over was far and away my best pitching coach. He watched me throw so many times that he immediatly could see when I was doing something wrong or as he would sat different. . He taught me what team work and passion and hard work does for someone.
Influences from within the game, I tried to learn from any and every person I encountered in the game, and still do.
Way too many to list,but a few who I had a tendency to listen to a little more extensivly,

Rockie Bridges, Milt May, Ed Ott, Bruce Kison, Sam Mcdowell, Jackie Brown, Hal Mccrae, Spin Williams, Bobby Randall, Bob Simmons, and many former teammates who made it and didnt.

My best teacher of the game and of life was a guy who coached me 3 yrs 16-18, he coached I beleive at Eckerd for a shot time and then in the Cape Cod (recently inducted to the Cape Hall as the winningest coach in their history.) Now in St Pete at a Prep School, his name was Don Reed. He was as old school as they came but looking back he understood the game and the mental part of the game as well as any.
Don Cooper was working with a couple of my boys the other day here in the Chicago area, and he explained something to one of them that was the exact same thing i had been trying to get across, he simply stated the same thing a different way . It made scense to that particular kid, and gave me another way to teach, like I said , I try to learn something from creditable baseball people no matter if its with a guy like Don or people on this site.

Sorry,

don't want forget my 8 yr old coach, remember sitting on the ondeck circle listening to this old guy tell our team that vacations were to be taken after season end. Taught me what committment was and what being a part of something was...Bob Moga thank you.

Coach Merc did you know Bob Godlewski ? He is a Tampa Assoc scout and Atheletic Director of Columbia Greene JC in the Adarondacks. He struck me as a fine baseball guy and I thought you might know him.