Let 'EM Play: What Parents, Coaches and Kids Need to Know about Youth Baseball FROM THE PUBLISHER
Youth baseball has become a national phenomenon: phenomenally popular, and phenomenally controversial.
While the kids are making plays on the field, their parents and coaches are making headlines in the newspaper-for violence, verbal abuse, threats, taunts, incident after incident of shockingly inappropriate behavior. Largely as a result of the actions of their elders, 75 percent of the kids have dropped out of baseball by age 13.
What has happened here?
InLet'em Play, Jack Llewellyn, a leading sports psychology consultant as well as an athlete, a father, a coach, and a longtime advocate of youth baseball, restores the sanity-and the fun-to this wonderful pastime. He examines the problems and possibilities of youth baseball, and offers the kind of commonsense advice that will return the game to the people for whom it was intended.
What's more, Dr. Llewellyn's insights are supplemented by never-before-published interviews with some of Major League Baseball's biggest stars and most respected managers- all of whom agree that, when it comes to youth baseball, it's time to just "let'em play."
Author Biography: Renowned sports psychology consultant Dr. Jack Llewellyn gained national acclaim when he was instrumental in turning around the 1991 season - and career- of Cy Young Award-winning pitcher John Smoltz. Other world-league clients include American League batting champion Paul O'Neill of the New York Yankees.
Currently under exclusive contract to the Atlanta Braves, Dr. Llewellyn has also worked with the Mets, the Yankees, the Reds, the Expos, the Pirates, and the Astros. His corporate clients include IBM, AT&T, 3M, Chase, Bank of America, American Express, and many others. Past senior editor of the Journal of Sport Behavior, he is also the author of the definitive Psychology of Coaching: Theory and Practical Application. His most recent book isComing In First: 12 Keys to Being a Winner Every Day. Dr. Llewellyn and his family live in Atlanta.
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