All About Pitching

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"New Sports Science Research Finally Reveals Dozens Of Pitching Myths That Stop Pitchers From Reaching The Full Potential...That Coaches Don't Want You To Know?"

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...One huge four pound volume - 1 ½ inches thick, 624 pages, 58 topics, 500 plus scientific references -- that provides proven yet completely brand new ways about how coaches can boost pitching performance faster in all their pitchers by engaging in activities that are proven to produce results instead of waste time

Table of Contents Preface

Dear Baseball Coach and pitching enthusiast,

My name is Dick Mills. I am a former professional pitcher with the Red Sox organization. I pitched briefly in the big leagues in 1970. My son was a first round pick in the 1998 draft and was the starting pitcher at the final game of the College World Series. I am about to explain how I learned some brand new and completely different information about how to boost pitching performance that few if any baseball coaches currently know about. You will not find this new information in any new book on pitching or learn about it at any national clinic because it is all based on brand new evidence based research.

Imagine learning that the large majority of pitchers at the high school and college level, and even many professionals, waste a great deal of their valuable time on activities that do not help them improve. I believe that is the case today in baseball regarding why pitchers are not improving. This is wasted time that every pitcher can never get back. This not only prevents all your pitchers from reaching their full potential, which may mean improving their velocity, developing outstanding ball control with less risk of injury, but it also limits your team’s ability to be more competitive and win more games year after year.

Remember all athletes have the same amount of time each day to improve. Those whose time is used wisely have the best chance to improve and reach their full potential.

Ask yourself this question: When was the last time you received new information that had a dramatic effect on boosting the pitching performances of all your pitchers not just the most talented -- information that was backed up by evidence based research -- rather than just the beliefs of a well-intentioned coach or pitching guru?

How would you like a completely new off season and annual plan that you can put into practice immediately so that every pitcher on your staff is able to maximize his performance and reach his full potential by next spring...so that you are able to win more games because your pitchers are fully prepared with better fitness and with highly improved pitching skills?

If pitchers waste their time on irrelevant activities that cannot provide a performance benefit, what chance do you think they have of ever reaching their full potential? Most remain mediocre and only a few - the most talented seem to be able to perform.

Much of what is being proposed today about pitching by well-intentioned coaches in books, clinic or at seminars is wrong, wasteful, and probably injury-threatening and contradictory to what is known in 'evidence-based' sports science. What coaches seem to do is invent what they believe to be good ideas even though their ideas are not supported by any sports science training principles...principles that fully determine movement skills, biomechanics, conditioning and psychology...in all of sports including baseball.

New Book Just Released
The Science and Art of Baseball Pitching - A Coach's Handbook for Scientific Pitching

In 2004 I teamed up with a world renowned sports scientist to write the first complete "evidence based' and fully researched book on baseball pitching. All About Pitching has just published this new book - The Science and Art of Baseball Pitching - A Coach's Handbook for Scientific Pitching. Coauthored by myself and sports-scientist Dr. Brent Rushall, it is the first evidence-based book on pitching that is backed by sports science research. In fact, it may be the first evidence-based baseball book ever. It covers all important areas for a pitcher including aerodynamics, biomechanics, motor learning, motivation, game psychology, general and specific physical training, neurophysiology, coaching behaviors and assessment, and pitching strategies, techniques, and current activities. It is a 624-page, 4 lb volume, with more than 500 scientific references that disprove and dispute many of the current pitching improvement myths that are advertised as being beneficial for pitching performance.

And for those coaches who are interested in improving a pitcher's velocity, you will learn the first scientific approach rather than listening to coaches who can provide no evidence of why a specific activity should improve velocity.

By using The Science and Art of Baseball Pitching, you will learn the reasons why most of these time wasting myths that many coaches are using do not and cannot work.

There is so much verified information in this book about how to boost pitching performance that most coaches are going to feel betrayed because they have been listening to others who they believed had credibility. They will now realize why they should have asked more questions or demanded to see proof when 'research' and 'science' were claimed.

You are about to learn some brand new and yet proven ways to improve your team's pitching so that 2007 provides better performance for all your pitchers...not just a select few. And if you are looking for proven ways to improve pitching velocity then this will be the first proven method you have heard about.

Why I Changed My Beliefs About How To Boost Pitching Performance

Let me give you some important background information so you understand why as a former professional and a pitching traditionalist, I was forced to change my pitching beliefs from what is currently being taught today by the large majority of coaches at the high school, college and professional levels.

Up until 2004 I would have referred to myself as a traditional ‘belief based’ pitching instructor trying to provide the very best instructional information available from the most experienced coaches. Since 1995 I had worked hard to learn from coaches whom I considered to be the best in the pitching business -- such as Bill Thurston, Rick Peterson, Jerry Weinstein, Tom House to name a few. But something happened in 2004 that changed my beliefs and my overall thinking about what I had previously learned from these top instructors about how to help baseball pitchers improve. Brand new information that I had never heard before.

Much of what I learned from those instructors from the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, became the basis of my instructional videos that I had been offering since 1996. However, that all changed once I learned this new scientific basis of pitching performance improvement. I was forced to change my total approach. I then put all that new information on DVD and titled my new program - Explosive Pitching that included new information on velocity improvement as well as conditioning the pitcher to be more explosive.

This Book Will Kill Many of The Coaching Myths that Have Stopped Pitchers from Improving!

The main goal of the book is to objectively dismantle the myths in use today that have wasted time, reduced performance, and increased pitching injuries. This is achieved by using evidence-based sports science research. As well, there is the added intention of providing a road map of performance enhancing activities that will help coaches teach pitchers how to reach their full potential.

There should be no more guessing about what pitchers should be focusing on in-season or off-season.

Many coaches have instinctively questioned whether today's popular activities are actually productive. Now they will get the answers and finally hear the truth.

Even the opinions and beliefs of many experienced and successful coaches have proven to be counterproductive. Some of these pitching Gurus' beliefs are very inaccurate. The confusion needed to be clarified and many questions that needed answers are answered now, because of the use of evidence-based research.

The following conclusions based on published refereed science are revealed in the book now show:

• Discover the scientific bases for boosting velocity that have nothing to do with building more arm strength, performing any new drills or exercises, or getting bigger and stronger.
• Learn new ways of throwing a bullpen that insure every pitcher is given the opportunity to improve his velocity and control.
• Find out why much of pitchers’ time is wasted on activities that cannot help them perform better...time lost that never can be recovered.
• Employ new methods to build pitching stamina so that every pitcher can extend and eventually reach his maximum pitch count game after game.
• Learn how to prepare for every game against every hitter by developing total focus and using appropriate imagery
• Understand why baseball must look at a different way of conditioning pitchers for power because speed of movement has been shown to be more important for improving velocity than added strength
• Learn why weighted balls have not been shown to improve throwing velocity and why most published studies supporting their use are not based on acceptable scientific methods.
• Determine why long toss should not be used during the season as an “improvement’ drill and why its main value would be only as part of a general off-season conditioning-maintenance program
• Find out the reasons why pitching from the mound more at higher intensity is actually less stressful than flat ground throwing...leading to more velocity and better control.
• Follow the steps of a fully researched, yet little known method of mental training that every coach can use to turn pitchers into tough-minded, totally focused and fully prepared winners.
• Read why new studies reveal that stretching before throwing reduces velocity and can lead to more arm injuries.
• Follow what coaches can do right now to raise player’s motivation and morale so team spirit and will-to-win rises to another level.
• Understand the value of improving mechanics by regularly videotaping and analyzing every pitcher during practice bullpens.
• Learn the finer points of pitching mechanics that reveal why even small and skinny pitchers can throw with above average velocity.
• Realize the reasons few coaches understand how velocity is produced and how this lack of understanding is stopping thousands of pitchers from throwing much harder with better control.
• Establish why timing and proper sequencing of movements produces a smooth-looking, effortless, but peak velocity delivery.
• Learn that the production of elastic energy is more important than muscle strength in producing more velocity with less stress.
• Determine why the back-leg to the front-leg lunge move should start a focused movement sequence to produce the fastest velocity for any pitch.
• Learn how arm speed is produced and why studies prove that it has little to do with arm strength.
• Understand why focusing on one element in the delivery sequence can be disruptive and another reason for causing less velocity and poor control.
• Adopt a better way to improve mechanics based on established motor learning principles than doing drills that can be disruptive and harmful.
• ...and much, much more

What Prompted Me To Write This New Book And Why Did I Choose My Coauthor?

Most of what I had learned over the years was solely based on the good ideas of top instructors. Much of course was still valuable however, the most important thing I learned was that any activity that is irrelevant to improving pitching performance is a waste of time, can be counterproductive and actually downright dangerous.

After hundreds of hours of discussions with Dr. Rushall, who has over 45 years of experience consulting with world class athletes and Olympic teams, I knew there needed to be a book that detailed everything a coach needed to know about pitching that was all backed up with scientific proof...unlike many of the popular pitching books out there today which provide no references even though they make claims of scientific research.

My new ‘mantra’ now is: ‘show me the evidence.’ In most cases today there is no evidence to prove a pitching point. Most is all based on belief.

In December of 2005, my coauthor and I started researching and writing what would ultimately be a 624 page reference manual on pitching with over 500 scientific references.

Dr. Brent S Rushall, is Professor Emeritus of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences at San Diego State University. He has published 48 books and over 450 articles, book chapters, and psychology tests. His academic recognitions have included the designation of being the founding scholar in Behavioral Sport Psychology and a world authority in Coaching Science and Education. Dr. Rushall is a four-time Olympic Team psychologist for Canada, and has represented Canada at Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and World Cup events in a number of sports. He is a member of the Olympic Club of Canada. He has consulted with many international sport teams and organizations primarily in the field of performance enhancement. As a participant, Dr. Rushall played international rugby football and was a member of the first All-American rugby team. He has received national coaching appointments in the sports of swimming, rugby football, and rowing. He has been psychologist to some of the world's best athletes.

Dr. Rushall has honors degrees in exercise physiology, certifications in engineering, and is a certified psychologist and teacher. His courses at the upper division and graduate levels have involved exercise physiology, sport psychology, and biomechanics.

Not only is he a research scientist and expert in the sports science field but a former outstanding athlete himself who understands the science of pitching movement, the biomechanics, strength and conditioning, proper coaching practices, as well as the psychology of pitching. He is also the first biomechanist to do a digitized video analysis of a professional baseball pitcher back in 1969.

Dr. Rushall is one of the fully qualified persons in the area of sports science who is qualified to understand and speak authoritatively on every aspect of pitching covering mechanics, physical conditioning, and psychology.

This book is intended to be "the reference manual" on scientific pitching. If you have a question about any area of pitching, you should be able to find it referenced, answered, and fully validated from sports science research. No more opinions or beliefs of some pitching Guru; just plain reliable evidence.

However, in the section of "The Art of Pitching", you will read my beliefs about other pitching philosophies over the years, pitching mechanics, strategy, throwing all the pitches, and grips. Those beliefs are based on the science explained in the first 48 topics of the book. My topics also go into detail about other pitching books and current pitching philosophies so the reader will know what to look for when evaluating a coach, instructor, or clinic.

What You Won’t Find In This Brand New ‘Scientific’ Approach To Pitching Performance

The most valuable thing that I have learned since moving from a more traditional belief based to a science and evidence based approach to pitching is that there are no secrets to improving pitching performance whether it is velocity, control or creating a specific conditioning routine for providing more power and velocity.

I currently follow very closely, the new ideas that are now being taught today in pitching books and at national clinics and online. Most of it is just more recycled but common ‘beliefs” and ‘good’ sounding ideas that are not backed up with evidence based truth.

The very latest book on pitching recently published by a popular pitching guru claims to be backed by science however the book contains not one scientific reference to back up information that I would consider very misleading and little is based on truth -- just more beliefs of the author.

Why Weighted Baseballs Do Not Work To Improve Pitching Velocity

For example, weighted balls have reemerged again as a faster means of improving velocity. Weighted balls have been around since the early seventies with little success. Some self professed experts are making huge claims of velocity increases of 5-12 mph in a relatively short period or time. For over five years I have challenged the weighted ball advocates to explain how they work. I have yet to hear an explanation that makes any sense at all. From their explanations it is clear that they do not understand how the body and arm works to deliver a baseball at high speed.

Look at it this way, if weighted balls worked to improve velocity, every professional pitcher would be using them during the off season to make those gains of 5 mph or more. Weighted balls only seem to work on growing and developing pitchers - mostly high school pitchers or some college pitchers who have not matured or stopped growing. It is not the weighted balls that provide the improvement. It is natural growth and development.

We Challenge The Eleven Weighted Balls Studies

In our new book we devote 16 pages and scientifically dispute the current research that has been done on how weighted balls improve velocity. That’s right - the research is wrong. I have no doubt that any coach reading my coauthor’s explanation will fully understand why weighted balls cannot work and are a complete waste of time and effort whether these pitchers are high school or college.

The time spent trying to chase velocity using weighted balls is time a pitcher can never get back. Time he could have been using to improve his pitching skills on more valuable activities which we fully detail in the book.

Those coaches who have been advocating weighted baseballs at national clinics or in articles have been running coaches down a blink alley.

The fact is that most of the velocity increases from high school pitchers come from natural growth and development, not from long toss, weighted balls or working in the weight room.

If you want to finally learn how not to waste any more valuable time helping to improve your pitching staff then you must read these proven facts, over 500 scientific references all researched that most baseball coaches have never heard of until now...then The Science And Art Of Baseball Pitching could be the most important reference tool you have ever had.

This is a volume that every coach must have on his shelf.

Do Most Coaches Really Have A Strong Knowledge Base On How To Improve Pitching Performance?

When I started All About Pitching back in 1995, I always felt I had the best available information on how to improve pitching performance whether it was mechanics, conditioning or the mental part of the game. I know that most coaches feel the same way. For years, I was a regular attendee along with my wife Ginny to the Baseball Injuries conferences at The American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama.

I was encouraged to attend these seminars by former ASMI pitching consultant Bill Thurston of Amherst College, one of the most respected pitching experts in the world.

It was there that I met New York Mets’ pitching coach Rick Peterson, who became a guest writer for my newsletter. Until early 2004, I had read all the books and invested regularly in audio tapes and video tapes from national conferences. I didn’t believe there was much I could possibly have missed in trying to maintain a strong knowledge base in all areas of pitching.

My wife Ginny, a certified fitness trainer, regularly attended The National Strength And Conditioning Associations’ sports specific conferences on baseball in order to maintain her certification from The American College Of Sports Medicine. We employed many of Mets’ conditioning coach, Vern Gambetta’s training ideas on how to train explosiveness and hired Ph.D conditioning guru Mike Clark to guest teach on our Conditioning The Pitcher For Power DVD’s. We did everything we could to stay on top of the most progressive ideas on pitching performance.

However, once I was exposed to and studied more closely sports science training principles, the principles that determine performance in all of sports including baseball, I was forced to shift and immediately change my beliefs about many activities that are currently being used by pitching coaches whom I had originally followed.

Imagine If There Were Many More Yet Better Ways To Improve Pitching Performance That You Were Not Currently Using?

As a coach can you afford to have your pitchers waste time on activities where there is no proof that they work to improve performance? Of course not. Time is money.

Hearing common pitching practice routines from many of our high school and college clients , I personally estimate that possibly as much as 50% of a pitcher’s time devoted to improvement is being wasted. Imagine what could happen to an entire pitching staff if they focused only on activities that were proven to work?

In this thick volume of research, you will discover many new ways to help improve your current pitching staff -- ideas and routines that you have never heard or read before but will make absolute sense and will work far better than what you are currently using because they have proven to work in all of sports.

Should You Instruct By Using Popular Drills?

For example, there are many popular drills currently being used as performance aids to help improve mechanics. Imagine finding out that these drills actually reduce the ability of a pitcher to improve his delivery and may actually create timing problems which contribute to lessening force production which not only reduces velocity but adversely effects control and may increase the risk of arm injuries.

I explain why many of the most popular drills today including the ‘towel drill’ are simply velocity killers.

Once you read our section on mechanics, you will realize why a drill such as the ‘kneeling drill’ makes absolutely no sense and cannot possibly help a pitcher improve his upper body mechanics. You will understand why it makes no sense to ever isolate just the upper body because the lower body provides the impulse that ultimately provides the energy for trunk rotation, trunk flexion and finally arm speed.

Why Long-toss Should Be Questioned for Improving Velocity?

Another popular activity today is long-toss, supposedly good for building more arm strength. However, long-toss actually has no relationship to what pitchers do in games which is throwing downhill from the mound trying to hit the glove. Because an outfielder can throw a ball 300 feet using a crow hop does not mean he can throw from the mound with above average velocity. Why? Because pitching is a skill that requires transferring body weight from one leg to the other from a stationary position while moving downhill trying to hit a specific target. Long toss uses a crow hop, throwing in an upward trajectory, and no fine intended target. A crow-hop allows the outfielder to build added momentum, something that is not possible when throwing from the mound.

Throwing from the mound is a learned skill and very different from throwing long-toss. Emphasizing long-toss is likely to confuse and complicate pitching as players attempt to incorporate irrelevant movement characteristics into a finely integrated skill.
There is no valuable relationship between long-toss and pitching from the mound. Long-tossing is largely a waste of time for pitchers who want to improve velocity, mechanics, and ball control. Studies have also shown long-toss to be more stressful on the arm. If pitchers want to use long-toss as a general type of full body conditioning during the off season then fine. However, do not use it for improving pitching velocity or accuracy. It simply will not work.

The single most important activity that pitchers should engage in is one that many coaches actually discourage pitchers from doing and that is - throwing from the mound at full game intensity. This should be done much more often than pitchers are presently doing. This is the single most important activity that develops specific pitching fitness. Once they learn a simple bullpen practice routine, one quite different from how pitchers currently practice, pitchers will be able to throw more pitches during games, recover more quickly, and improve in the control of their pitches. Their bodies will be better equipped for the stresses of throwing a large volume of pitches in games more often while actually recovering quicker.

How To Improve Velocity - Finally An Explanation That Makes Sense, Is Proven And Works

Improving pitching velocity is a much sought after goal at all levels of baseball. Besides possibly strength and conditioning, there is probably more misinformation on how to improve a pitcher’s velocity than most areas of pitching improvement.

You will learn something that may challenge your current beliefs about what actually produces velocity. You will finally learn why pitching velocity has little to do with arm strength. And you will have the study that proves it.

Imagine being a pitcher and chasing after something that has little value once you get it -- more arm strength. You will learn why pitching velocity is much more about speed of movement rather than trying to energize muscles since muscle contractions do not supply arm speed. Elastic energy does. We explain how to generate more of that.

However, misinformation abounds about how to improve velocity.

For example, one nationally known pitching guru explained in a recent article in a popular baseball magazine what they found out about how the body works for gaining more velocity. Here is what was written: ‘rotational momentum provided by the hips and shoulders accounted for a larger percentage of generated velocity than the directional momentum provides by the legs driving towards home plate.’

This is wrong and you will learn why velocity is already produced by the time the pitcher’s front foot lands. Pitching velocity and the speed of the ball coming out of the hand is the result of energy produced while the pitcher moves from his back leg to his front leg. A smooth looking delivery is the result of good timing. There is a bit more to it but there is no way you can improve rotational forces unless you understand the importance of being explosive moving the body from the rubber into landing.

This misinformation about velocity and rotational forces providing most of it, will more than likely put into motion many drills about how to energize ‘hip and shoulder’ rotation. This will be a mistake. By focusing on this one aspect of the delivery, the pitcher will end up actually slowing down his speed of movement and thereby reducing any velocity increase. Hip and trunk rotation is fully determined by how explosive the pitcher is while lunging his body from his back leg to his front leg.

You will learn why drills such as that can never work once you understand that pitching is a complex yet two-phase motor skill with no natural breaks.

How Do Skinny Or Smaller Pitchers Throw With Above Average Velocity?

Many coaches are telling pitchers to get bigger and stronger in order to throw harder. Shouldn’t these same coaches be able to explain how skinny pitchers or smaller pitchers are able to throw with above average velocity.

For example, during the 2005 playoffs the Angels 22 year old RH Ervin Santana was throwing 92-96 mph. He stands 6’2” weighs 160 lbs. He has skinny legs, a skinny upper body and skinny arms yet throws mid-nineties. How does he do it? The same way that all pitchers do it and that is by using proper mechanics...that emphasize explosiveness ...rather than just building more general strength.

Do you want to know how to kill a skinny or smaller pitcher’s velocity and possibly get him injured? Instruct him to get bigger and stronger. In most cases that will slow down his speed of movement and adversely effect his velocity.

Ervin Santana, the skinny RH pitcher from the Angles gets his velocity from the elastic energy production of his mechanics. Not from long toss or weight training. And not because he was born with a strong arm.

This book will explain why he can do that and why many of your skinny or smaller pitchers can also improve their throwing velocity by understanding how the body works mechanically so the body delivers the arm at high speed...by generating more elastic energy. Explanations that you have never heard before.

Pitchers Are Simply Not Fit To Pitch

Pitchers today are simply not fit because they are not training their body to throw more pitches at game intensity. Their practices do not involve the Principle of Overload, the necessary feature to improve fitness. Pitchers cannot expect to throw more game pitches if they throw fewer in practice while getting ready for those games.

A basis of this problem is that coaches believe the arm is the source of pitching power and velocity. But biomechanists have shown that to be wrong. The arm and shoulder do contribute to pitching velocity but through the development of stored elastic energy, not metabolic energy from contracting muscles. The summation of momentum in the movement sequence of pitching governs how fast the elastic energy in the arm and shoulder is developed. The faster that development, the greater will be the release velocity. Sport science explains how this occurs and how it should be exploited to improve pitchers.

The evidence is in. Pitching velocity is not about arm strength. Pitching velocity is much more about the speed of movement of the pitcher's body segments and their sequential accumulation of momentum resulting in the production of the highest amount of elastic energy in the arm, shoulder, and other parts of the body. Without the development of elastic energy, pitching velocity cannot be impressive. Specific fitness training aims to develop this rarely discussed, but most important mechanical source of energy that can be transferred to a ball at the release.

Be Able to Throw More Pitches, Improve Mechanics and Command, and Then Go Deeper into Games

Have you ever wondered how a starting pitcher is supposed to be ready to throw 100 pitches in a game by throwing only 30-40 in practice...sometimes at 75-80% of game intensity? Does that make sense in terms of what is know about learning skills and increasing fitness? Of course not, yet baseball coaches have discouraged pitchers from throwing off the mound too much in order to "save their arms for the games." You will learn that the arm is not the source of pitching power but is mainly along for the ride. If the pitcher does not train his body to throw a large volume of pitches at game intensity in between games, how then will his body be ready to throw 100 or more pitches in a game?

Could the counterproductive philosophy of non-specific under load training be one of the contributing factors that explains why more pitchers are incurring injuries? Their bodies are simply under-trained for improving the volume of game intensity pitches that could be thrown. If the body is not trained through the Principle of Overload to throw a sufficient volume of pitches, the arm may not be able to achieve optimum mechanical positions and therefore, will be subjected to heightened stress.

Is throwing more pitches off the mound at "game intensity" a better solution? The answer will surprise you and is fully covered. You will also learn how quickly the body really recovers when it is fully and properly trained to throw. As well, traditional activities and procedures followed during a game increase stress and fatigue rather than reduce them.

Will Every Coach Agree With What Is In This Book?

Will everybody in baseball agree with what is written in this book? Certainly not. We already know that baseball has largely been a "belief-based" bastion for coaches' opinions. Beliefs are difficult to change. Those in baseball who do not agree with this book's content will have to provide evidence that science reported is wrong and provide objective evidence their methods work. Experience and self-reporting is not evidence. A few good self-serving stories or anecdotes do not provide evidence that anything works.

There is no evidence that weight training or long-toss improves pitching velocity. The basic question is "how could they?" Pitching velocity is all about speed of movement and skilled employment of bodily resources...not arm strength. The price of this book is justified alone by the section dealing with the neurophysiology and biomechanics. Finally, you will read the evidence as to why neither weight training nor long-toss can improve velocity...ever.

The Psychology of Pitching Improvement and Building the Totally Confident Pitcher

Most pitching books give only lip service to the importance of the mental part of the game with few researched formulas that if followed can literally take a pitcher's game to the next level. The section on the psychology of pitching provides an in-depth coverage of exactly what pitchers should do to prepare fully for a season, for a game, and how to think during games. It explains how to prevent distractions from affecting performance. It even covers how professional pitchers can much better prepare for their heavy travel schedule so that they do not feel fatigued and out of sorts in away games.

Is Any Baseball Book Really Worth $97.00

The Science And Art Of Baseball Pitching is approximately four times the size of the average book on baseball pitching. To purchase four books would be well over $100.00. This fully researched reference book that took several years to write is now available for USA customers for $97.00 plus $9.95 shipping and handling….far less than the price of pitching clinics or seminars at national conventions where the information may be sorely outdated and only based on the beliefs of well-intentioned coaches.

More than likely you have never paid more than $50.00 for a baseball book. And I cannot blame you because up until now every pitching book out there, as well as most videos or pitching clinics, are the "opinions" of the authors or just their strong beliefs. However, those beliefs are not backed-up with evidence. So imagine if many of those well intentioned opinions are wrong or misguided! How much then are those videos, books, or pitching clinics really worth? The fact is that the large majority of pitching advice that is being handed out today is questionable at best, rather than being verified by scientific evidence.

PURCHASING THE SCIENCE AND ART OF BASEBALL PITCHING

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Ok, that's it. You have all the information you need to make a sound sensible decision. You can read the entire Table of Contents and Preface to see exactly what the book contains. The links are below.

Sincerely,

Dick Mills

P.S. If you continue to do what you have always done you will continue to get similar results. You will never know how good your pitchers could have become by following a proven plan back by sports science research. These are proven ideas that you have never heard before because not one coach has done the research.

If this book is not worth at least 10 times the value of any other pitching book out there right now, or the latest clinic or national seminar on pitching, I will gladly refund your money. Remember you have three months to examine the book. If you are not completely satisfied you can return it for a full refund less shipping within 90 days of the purchase date.

There is a big reason why this book is a must. It answers pitching questions with evidence-based research rather than using the beliefs of other experienced but misinformed baseball coaches.

Without this manual as a reference at your fingertips...you will be at the mercy of all the groundless time-wasting beliefs that just about every experienced coach today relies on...even former major leaguers. No pitcher today can afford that risk.

Once you read this book, you will feel confident that you will know what activities are beneficial and what are a waste of time. Doing what has been proven to work is the only way a pitcher can reach his full potential.

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