Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way: Ensuring the Best Experience for Your Kids in Any Sport

The record-breaking former Baltimore Orioles baseball star shares his concerns about how youth baseball has become more competitive than fun, in a guide for parents and coaches that explains how to avoid counter-productive coaching practices and loss intolerance. 75,000 first printing.

CAL RIPKEN, JR., played twenty-one seasons with the Baltimore Orioles and has broken numerous baseball records, including Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games played (Ripken played 2,632). He is one of only seven players in history to reach 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. His previous books include The Only Way I Know (which was a New York Times bestseller and a #1 Washington Post bestseller) and Play Baseball the Ripken Way: The Complete Guide to Fundamentals, coauthored with his brother Bill Ripken, also a national bestseller.
Coauthor RICK WOLFF is an executive editor at Warner Books and the chairman of the Center for Sports Parenting.