Chalk Talk

by Al Hobby

Overview

Because the High School team where Coach Hobby coached was in a cold weather state there were too many times the team was forced to stay inside. It was a small school and the baseball preseason started durng the basketball season so the amount of time the baseball team spent in the gym was very limited. So to overcome the problem the team and coaches would go to a classroom. Using chalk the coaches would list points and issues they wanted to convey on the black board. At some point the players started referring to this as 'chalk talk time'. As they said this was the time the coaches wanted to 'get into their heads'. Chalk Talk is collection of those discussions put into writing. Most of which were concerning the effect the mental game plays on the physical game. The articles represent Coach Hobby's thoughts and the points he was trying to convey about the role their mindset like attitude, emotions and confidence plays. The themes are from sports incidents, articles from sports subscriptions like Sports Illustrated, sport psychologists and sports figures and how they responded to pressure, mistakes, slumps, etc. Coach Hobby's goal was to get the players to acknowledge the importance the role their mindset plays in their physical development and to convince them to commit to include some of his suggestions and thoughts when they are working on their physical game.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098363116
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	04/05/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	294
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Coach Hobby coached baseball for thirty plus years twenty four of which was at the High School level. Helped start and coached for nine ywars a Fall College Recruitment team that participated in showcases for High School players that had aspirations to go to college. Also coached a group of Pennsylvania High School players that were selected to play in an Olympic summer tournament called the Keystone Games Competition for five years,

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Attitude and Energy-Internal Control 8

Belief and Trust 16

Bump in the Road 25

Calculated Anticipation 37

Clutch Players - Different Mindset 42

Components of an at Bat 48

Control 55

Does Your Team have a Tendency to Self-Destruct? 64

Drills - Working on Your Mental Game 74

Fail to Succeed 80

Fighting Slumps 86

Five Tools 98

For What it's Worth 109

Form Over Substance 113

How Big is Little 122

Mental Toughness 129

Not Feeling Well? You may have White Line Fever 136

One Pitch at a Time 148

Others 155

Pressure 166

Pulling the Rope 177

Quicksand 183

Relax 199

Role Players-The Starters 205

Scrapes and Bruises 211

Significant Stat 219

Slumps 229

Take Responsibility for your Attitude Adjustment 241

The Winning Edge 248

Thinking Too Much 253

To Swing or not to Swing-That is the Question 260

What Comes First-The Chicken or the Egg 281

What Comes First - Confidence or Success 284