Welcome to the 2011 Cary Hot Rods Mite Baseball team. My name is Peter Thornton, more commonly known as Tad’s Dad. I have volunteered to coach the Hot Rods.
I will be calling you this evening. This will be my first year coaching Mite Baseball. I have, through three sons, been coaching T-ball for the past seven years. The rules for Mite are very similar to T-ball, except we start with coach pitch, so I am very comfortable about being promoted up a league.
My coaching philosophy follows that stated by Cary Parks and Recreations. Everybody plays, everybody learns and everybody has fun.
I post updates on a blog, which can be found at http://caryhotrods.blogspot.com/
You will notice you are on a Google groups e-mail list serve for this team. The Google groups name is caryhotrods@googlegroups.com. Google Groups give you the option to add and remove e-mail addresses as you wish. Or you can just send me an e-mail address and I will add it myself.
At this point and this evening when I call you, I would like to cover three topics. Equipment, Volunteers and Practices.
EQUIPMENT
Shirts, hats, bats, balls, helmets and other baseball equipment are provided by Cary Parks and Rec.
Each player will need to bring to practice:
Baseball Glove
Sneakers or rubber cleats (no metal cleats allowed)
Water bottle (with water)
Baseball type hat until we get our very cool Hot Rods hats.
When the games start players are suggested to have:
White baseball pants
White baseball socks with black stripes
No batting gloves please
Please write your name on your personal equipment including your water bottle.
VOLUNTEERS
WE ARE ALL SET ON VOLUNTEERS. YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!
Volunteer #1 – Assistant Coach. THANK YOU CRAIG MCCALL! BUT... I will still call on all parents to help out at practice, Craig is the erson to be the official assistant, to cover when I can’t be there and to be in charge when I have to be somewhere else on the field.
Volunteer #2 – Shirts. THANK YOU TANA! Pick up shirts from Cary Parks and Rec. Take then to Logo Joes at 1375 SE Maynard Rd Cary, NC 27511. Have the players first names put on the back of the shirt. Collect money from parents for shirts. (50 cents per letter).
Volunteer #3 – Trophies. THANK YOU MAURINE MAUL - Collect approximately $5 from each parent and order trophies to be given out at end of year party. Best deal last year was found on the internet. (Best case scenario, coordinate with shirt volunteer and collect money from each player to pay for both names and trophies!)
Volunteer #4 - End of Year Party - THANK YOU MAURINE MAUL AGAIN - Organize a party after last game of the year.
Volunteer #5- Team Photographer - THANK YOU ELIZABETH ANGELL
Take team and individual pictures and distribute to the team.
PRACTICES
Our spring training practice schedule can be found at http://caryhotrods.blogspot.com/2011/03/spring-training-schedule.html
Games begin week of May 2. Game schedule will be posted as soon as we receive it.
The schedule is on our web page, which also has links for directions to the parks as well as a link on ball field status. You will want to bookmark the ball field status link to check if we have practice on rain days or days following a heavy rain.
Program for Practices - Here is how we conduct practices. We will need lots of help to do all this, so if you can, please wear sneakers!
1 - Group Discussion on one principal of baseball (e.g. running to 1st). Coaches explain, coaches show how to do it and then players do it.
2 - Break up into four groups for practice stations (Will need all parents available to help at stations). Will practice at each station for 5-7 minutes then rotate to the next station.
Station 1 - Batting
Station 2 - Catching
Station 3 - Throwing
Station 4 - Fielding
3 - End practice with fun activity or game such as kickball, musical baseballs, etc.
I know your boys are going to want to know if their friends are on the team. Attached is our roster.
I look forward to meeting all of you. The best way to get in contact with me directly is by e-mail at pthornton4@yahoo.com.
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