Ken Beardslee

Making Every Pitch Count Ken Beardslee

With a mere two hundred words, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the gifted American poet, changed the lives ofcountless numbers of young people by composing his inspiring poem, THE PSALM OF LIFE. Ken Beardslee, in this his sixth book, believes he can changethe lives of thousands of young baseball pitchers with his latest effort, MAKING EVERY PITCH COUNT. It is a bookof limited pages, easily understood, and in the long run quality alwaystriumphs over quantity. With the lively baseball, the much smaller strike zone,and the lowering of the mound, all present day pitchers are working with a verynarrow window to success. With new approaches, and tested theories of his own,the author presents a program that will vastly improve any pitcher'sperformance. The author's record as an amateur and professional pitcher, andhis deep experience as a big league scouting supervisor for the PittsburghPirates, speaks for itself. At Vermontville High School in Michigan,he set seven state pitching records. In addition he holds the national recordfor strikeouts per batters faced during a high school season, and career. Inprofessional baseball before being injured, he had a seventy five percentwinning percentage in the New York Yankee organization. MAKING EVERY PITCH COUNT breaks new ground for pitchers of allages.