After a lackluster high school experience in baseball as a centerfielder and second baseman, I played fifteen years of men's fast pitch softball at third base. I have played all positions except shortstop - never could get the thrid hop quite right -- and have attended numberous clinics.

With the advent of marriage and children, I gradually gravitated toward coaching. I started by assisting other coaches and, before long, I was managing my own team with thanks to the many coaches I had worked with over the years. Since then I have coached each of my three children from age six into their teens in each of a half-dozen different leagues both baseball and softball. I have attempted in this book to set down my nearly thirty years of coaching experience and a philosophy of coaching that has served me well over the years.