Being a baseball coach?

Question

What does it take to be a baseball coach? What do you need to know and how would one start?

Answer 1

You need to know all of the rules, get tips from other dads that are coaches, if you have a kid DO NOT be harder on them than anyone else on the team. Be respectful to parents and easygoing. Don't get in alot of arguments with the refs and control your temper. Be very familiar with the rules and have some former familiarity with the game. Have another coach help you out. Be smart with your decisions. First time coaches are never the best, but in time you will be considered a good coach.

Answer 2

If you are in college or looking to college, both playing experience and taking coaching courses in the college's Phys. Ed. department will help.  As a young, aspiring coach, the experience comes from volunteering and assisting good coaches from whom you can learn.

Being an assistant coach or JV coach at a high school is how many other coaches get their start and climb the coaching career ladder.

Answer 3

first start by being a little league coach then you will get better and better.

Answer 4

To get to the pro level is very difficult without having at least played pro ball in the minors at one time.

However, a good place to start would probably be at the high school level. This will probably require you to be a teacher as well, which will mean getting at least a bachelor's degree and a teaching certificate. (And some school districts will require a master's degree) Check the state you live in to verify what the requirements are - do you need a degree specifically in education, or can you perhaps major in a sports related field (such as P.E.) and simply get a certificate to make you eligible?

High school coaching could lead to college coaching, and perhaps the pros down the road.

The idea of coaching at the Little League level is not a bad idea for the experience, but I really doubt it will lead you to a college or pro job. Not a lot of major league GM's or college AD's looking for coaches at Little League games.

Good luck.