Los Altos-Mountain View Pony Baseball

Designed by John Verducci, a long time coach and former President of LAMV, and former Board Member Mark Atherton, the coaches manual serves as a foundation for all coaches working at the 10-12 year old level, the focus is on fundamentals - an area that coaches often overlook. Success in baseball requires a solid grounding in fundamentals. Focus on these fundamentals and your players are certain to improve. Build on the fundamentals with every player on your team and your team will be competitive.

Author: John Verducci is the primary source for the content. John has been with LAMV PONY Baseball for nearly a decade coaching at all levels and serving as the league's president. He's been one of our more successful coaches. His teams have frequently won the championship or finished in second place. That's not because he always has the best players, it's because he's excellent at developing their talent. John has a rich baseball background - he was a local star in high school and went on to play at Stanford University where he was considered one of the best defensive shortstops in the school's history. Following college he played in the San Francisco Giants organization for several years. He has a tremendous knowledge of the game but also a unique ability to teach the game to young players. While it's impossible to capture everything John teaches kids or his approach to coaching,  we hope you find this excerpt useful to you as you develop the young men and women on your teams.