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Anticipate Probable Outcomes

“If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.” – from the book Blink (2005) by Malcolm Gladwell As players and coaches, sometimes we don’t recognize what’s likely to happen on the baseball field until it actually does. It’s … Continue reading

Concentrate On What You Must Do. Don’t Be Distracted By What You Have Done.

“You must forget the last game and the last inning and the last batter, because there is not a thing that you can do about them. The only batter you can get is the one standing up there at the plate with the bat in his hand. You can have the strongest arm in the … Continue reading

Swing Until You Decide Not To Swing

“To swing or not to swing, that is the question.” – what William Shakespeare would have written had he ever seen a baseball game and subsequently been inspired to write The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of the Diamond. Seven-time American League batting champ and Hall-of-Famer (as well as 18-time All-Star, the 1967 Rookie of the … Continue reading

Hope Is Not An Effective Hitting Strategy

“If I’m prepared, I’m confident.  I can control that, so I do everything possible to be prepared.  That’s as much as I can do.” – Wade Boggs (5-time AL Batting Champ, 3010 Career Hits, .328 Career Batting Average, 12-time All-Star, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005) A fan watching his or her … Continue reading