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USSSA USSSA offers over 13 primary sports programs, including baseball, slow pitch and fastpitch softball and basketball. http://USSSA.com
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Sorry i have plans.Same field, same guys, same three hours. It has been nine years and the group chat still argues about...
09/06/2026

Sorry i have plans.

Same field, same guys, same three hours. It has been nine years and the group chat still argues about the lineup every single week.

What are your plans on Sunday? Comment them.

09/06/2026

The baseball your kid crushes over the fence today used to weigh about as much as a deck of cards. In 1845, the original rules set it at just 3 ounces.

USSSA Baseball still inspects bat and ball specs for the same reason that number changed. ⚾

Elite hitters aren't fooled by physics. They're fooled by their own trained reflexes. The rise ball is one of those uniq...
09/06/2026

Elite hitters aren't fooled by physics. They're fooled by their own trained reflexes. The rise ball is one of those unique pitches that is gone before you know it.

Pitchers train endlessly to perfect this pitch and throw off their opponents.

Pitchers, how long did it take you to consistently land that zone? Comment below. 🥎

The part that shows up on the scoreboard takes about four seconds. The part that puts it there takes four years.Nobody f...
09/06/2026

The part that shows up on the scoreboard takes about four seconds. The part that puts it there takes four years.

Nobody films the 5:30 mornings. Nobody claps for the two hundredth swing. That is exactly why they count.

Send this to the one who is still in the cage.

09/05/2026

Imagine facing a pitch from 17 feet closer than any baseball hitter ever has to.

That's fastpitch. Before 1993, the ball was white. College softball switched to optic yellow that year specifically to buy back reaction time, and every USSSA Fastpitch at-bat still runs on that fix. 🥎

09/05/2026

The part most parents get backwards: the pressure that helps your kid is the pressure already on the field. The pressure you add from the stands is the part that hurts.

Here's what's actually happening in a close game. Dopamine and noradrenaline sharpen focus and attention. Cortisol, at moderate levels, gets the body ready to perform. That's the inverted-U researchers have been describing since 1908: a little arousal helps, too much wrecks it. Past that peak the prefrontal cortex, the part that makes decisions, is the first thing to go offline.

Which is why a kid who is nervous competes well, and a kid who is scared of disappointing you does not.

None of this makes practice optional. Reps are where the skill gets built. Competition is where a kid learns to reach for it while it's hard.

Sources: Arnsten, Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2009), on stress and prefrontal function. Lupien et al., Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2009), on the cortisol curve.

What's the one thing you've stopped saying to your kid on the drive home? 👇

By Monday nobody remembers the score. Everybody remembers who was on the bench.Nine seasons of the same guys, the same f...
09/05/2026

By Monday nobody remembers the score. Everybody remembers who was on the bench.

Nine seasons of the same guys, the same field and the same three hours. The scoreboard was never the reason.

Tag the bench.

One of these takes four seconds. The other one takes both hands, a knee on the step and a fight with the laces.Cleats fo...
09/05/2026

One of these takes four seconds. The other one takes both hands, a knee on the step and a fight with the laces.

Cleats for the dirt, turf shoes for warmups, and a sandal that has not been worn since May.

Tag the one who has not touched a sandal all season.

09/05/2026

Bat speed in slowpitch doesn't come from the arms. It comes from a sequence: load into the back leg, pelvis turns, chest turns, hands snap through last, in that exact order.

This band drill isolates that sequence with nothing else to rely on. Lock the front foot down for the harder variation, and the back hip has to do all the work.

One honest caveat: this drill trains rotation, not weight transfer (back foot to front foot). If your swing feels disconnected in a different way, that's a separate fix, not this one.

6 to 10 reps, as explosive as you can make them. What's the first thing you're checking next time you're in the cage? A) Load, B) Rotation order, or C) Hand timing. Drop a letter. 👇

Four questions, no middle ground.There is no correct answer here and everybody in the comments is going to act like ther...
09/05/2026

Four questions, no middle ground.

There is no correct answer here and everybody in the comments is going to act like there is. The tree people and the canopy people have never once agreed on anything and this is not the post that fixes it.

Answer all four in order, one word each. Then tag the person on your team who would pick the exact opposite of everything you just said.

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