Archive for the ‘Baseball Training’ Category


Baseball Training: How Not to Think

This clip is a couple of days old but still relevant. It’s the Red Sox Tim Wakefield bemoaning their late season slump. Of course he’s bummed because they just lost a game — no problem with that. But listen to what he says to the question at about the :56 second mark. “I don’t know.” [...]

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Baseball Hitting: The Power of Focus and Training

See, if you just focus and practice enough you can really do amazing things…. Want this kind of focus?  Get my new book, PLAY BIG! Comments welcome.

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Baseball Training: The Really Big Leagues

Well, here’s one that might seem out of left field, but I really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. Fiona Apple is an amazing artist and here she reveals a great deal about where she’s coming from. One thing I know about elite performers is that they relate to their craft differently [...]

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Ode to U.S. Women’s Soccer

I want to take this moment to acknowledge the US Women’s Soccer team. They made such a great run at it. But sometimes you’re on the wrong end of magic. I saw it as being the “other team” in a sports movie. You know how there’s one team the story revolves around and then they [...]

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Best Game Ever? Here’s the case for it…

I’d rank the U.S. victory on Saturday over Brazil in Women’s World Cup Soccer amongst the top 5 most exciting events I’ve watched on TV. For sure Top 5 loudest yells I’ve made watching TV. When we scored the lastest goal in the history of the World Cup it was one of those moments where [...]

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Baseball Coaching: How to Play Loose and Confident

I get great feedback on PLAY BIG daily. Here’s a good one: ———– Dr. Tom: Thanks for taking the time to make sure the book got to me. I had it for a week before we went to the state tournament and was able to use the visualization and really stress the A.B.C ( in [...]

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Baseball Training: LaRussa’s 3 Keys To Success Are __________

Great stuff in today’s Tampa paper on Tampa boy-made-good Tony LaRussa’s visit with the Cardinals. So here’re a few gems from the Big League’s third winningest manager of all-time: * RELENTLESS: “You ask any coach, especially in baseball where your challenge is to be ready to compete every day. You’ve got to have a relentless [...]

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College World Series: Winner’s Secret Sauce Revealed

I at least wanted a Game 3, but it was stille exciting to watch the end of the CWS. All hail the Gamecocks, wow they were good. My big takeaway was in the interviews afterwards: 2 straight seperate players dropped the L word on the nation… “Love.” As in “We all love each other on [...]

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