Frank Carlson Library

When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...

Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickey, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.

This video explores the most fundamental aspects of throwing a baseball. Covered in this program are the grip, the wind-up, the release and the follow through. Special attention is given to the importance of balance and helping youth pitchers understand that throwing a baseball is not limited to just the arm but the whole body. The video will go through a variety of individual and team pitching drills. Also addressed are arm injuries, injury prevention,...

This video provides creative drills and fundamental techniques for fielding for the youth player. Coach Marty Schupak has compiled some his most successful fielding drills along with the correct techniques that parents and youth coaches should teach their players.

This video covers a variety of strategies for the competitive youth baseball coach. Marty Schupak has drawn on his years of coaching and shared strategies with some of the most successful youth baseball coaches around who have won championships. Addressed are the most common strategic situations that occur in youth baseball games. Covered are cutoffs, back up situations, first and third offensive and defensive situations, the delayed steal, bunting...

This video provides explanations of some of the most common and recurring baseball mistakes that happen in youth baseball games. If you are a coach or parent in a recreational or competitive youth baseball league, this will break down the individual and team mistakes that can be corrected by some basic practice principles that will result in better hitting, pitching, and fielding. Covered are: hitting, pitching, baserunning, fielding, coaching, backing...

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, one was the Yankees' best loved players and the other was their most valuable. 1961 was about to be the summer that no one who loves baseball will ever forget. Both men find that they are approaching Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season 60 home-run record. Facing pressure from the media and the stands, both men know that there is only room for one winner. The fans make their choice, but the people's favorite isn't the favorite...

This video contains 34 creative drills that can be used on the practice field with a team as well as by parents and children in their backyard. The drills focus on basics such as base running, hitting, fielding and are explained in detail with a voice over narrator. At the beginning of each drill, a baseball field icon appears with the location of players for that drill. The appropriate age group for this video is 7-12 years old. Older players can...

Teamwork is the name of the game as Dora and friends maneuver through an obstacle course and then help Boots get his first hit in a baseball game.

When the record book closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before he racked up those numbers, Piersall faced a foe much tougher that a 90-m.p.h. fastball: mental illness. Anthony Perkins stars as Piersall in this powerful true story. Fear Strikes Out also marks the filmmaking debut of Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan, the team...