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Mom Saves Son’s Season (could you?)

By Dr. Tom on Saturday, March 10th, 2012 | No Comments

Hi: Here’s a good story — I got it yesterday from a mom who used the Play Big principles to “save” her son’s season. DISCLAIMER: Coaches and parents should know Gina Parris already was a trained tapper before Play Big (ginaparris.com), so I can’t say these results are “typical,” but I believe it is very [...]

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Great in Practice, But ….

By Dr. Tom on Monday, February 27th, 2012 | No Comments

Just a quick shout out today for a young player I’m coaching who is getting a taste of a wonderful lesson. (I’ll of course tell you the lesson, but it won’t mean that much to you. We have to experience things, get them into our bones, not just our cortex to really make a difference.) [...]

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Number 1 Coaching Tip Of All Time

By Dr. Tom on Thursday, December 15th, 2011 | No Comments

The #1 coaching point of all time is FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT. I’m getting ready to launch my new coaching program tomorrow and thought I’d share one example of what I want… Here’s an email I got from a player about my FREEDOM program (formerly called 201) See if any of the starred items [...]

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GOTTA TAP! Baseball Coaching at the Next Level

By Dr. Tom on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

“This week of practice has been amazing! I can’t believe how much fun I had.” “He’s 110% better. It’s truly amazing.” “I haven’t had trouble throwing since we spoke.” ———————- These are just a few comments I heard in the past week from players and parents of players I coach. I’ll tell you how you [...]

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You Must Focus on ___________.

By Dr. Tom on Monday, December 1st, 2008 | No Comments

“Pay for Results” I decided on a “pay only if you like it” offer for my youth program whilst reading the paper this morning. The columnist said “there is surprising agreement in the health care field about what needs to be done to fix health care in this country… shift the focus to paying for [...]

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Surprising Fix for Overstriding…

By Dr. Tom on Friday, November 21st, 2008 | No Comments

The memorial service was Tuesday. Thank you to all of you who wrote back to me after my email about my fried John passing last week. And to those who thought of him and me whether you wrote or not. And to those of you who read the email and then thought of yourself and [...]

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The Gift of Death

By Dr. Tom on Monday, November 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment

My friend John Otterness gave me a wonderful birthday present night before last. He then died yesterday. I’d picked him up at the cancer center and driven him to his home where the Hospice guy was waiting. We maneuvered him into a reclining chair. True to our entire relationship, John was giving to me the [...]

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The Day I Robbed Jeter

By Dr. Tom on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | No Comments

It was a bright, sunny mid-January morning at the Yankee minor league complex here in Tampa. I had grabbed a random catcher’s mitt and was sh agging BP for some big leaguers taking some extra hacks with a couple of other coaches. Posada, O’Neil, Jeter and someone else were taking turns at the dish. I’m [...]

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