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A Perfect Season . . .
A “Must Read” book for Coaching Youth Baseball

In this heartwarming baseball story, coach, author, and speaker Dan Clemens reveals the triumphs, failures, frustrations, and joys of being a youth baseball coach. His perfect season is chocked full of humor, passion, lessons learned, and wisdom to make youth baseball an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all involved.

Do You Have a Perfect Season in You?

Through his 65 personal journal entries, Clemens takes readers on a behind the scenes tour of his 12-year-old son’s baseball season. “It was perfect,” he says, “but not in terms of wins and losses.” Rather, Coach Dan’s team achieved their goals of learning, competing and having fun – the three things he emphasizes that should drive youth sports.

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Coach Clemens

A year after the Perfect Season, Coach Dan instructs his son Alan on the finer points of how to slide at bases

Clemens offers many insights that will help youth baseball coaches – and their players – enjoy A Perfect Season of their own:

  • The mantra of fun, learn, compete guides decisions on and off the field.
  • The difference between Responding and Reacting as a way of dealing with lackluster play, frustrating umpires, and angry parents.
  • Why curve balls and metal bats should be banned in the youth game.
  • Why yelling at kids doesn’t improve performance.
  • Why communication is a coach’s most important off-the-field responsibility.
  • Why kids should participate in multiple sports and learn to play several positions.
  • Why baseball coaches must define success before selecting players for the team.

A Perfect Season is a must-read book for every youth baseball coach . . . and shows parents what they should expect from someone they are trusting to coach their kids.

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From the Foreword by Marc Johnson:

Dan’s book is an excellent behind-the-scenes tour of coaching youth baseball. He does a wonderful job of reminding coaches and parents to focus on three key things that drive baseball and personal development: learn, be competitive, and have fun. As we look into the heart and mind of a youth coach, Dan shows us how to avoid the pitfalls, helps us rejoice in the triumphs, and guides us through the unpleasant. A Perfect Season is a voice of reality.


You’ll immediately feel his passion for baseball and you’ll both laugh and grimace at the lessons he learns throughout his journey. You’ll walk away with nuggets to make your coaching and parenting efforts more successful. But most importantly, Dan will make you think. He’ll challenge you to consider how your actions and words impact kids and suggest that you do some healthy introspection of your own motives and priorities.


As you read A Perfect Season I think you’ll better appreciate the tremendous opportunity and responsibility we have coaching the great game of baseball.

Marc Johnson
Cherry Creek High School Varsity Coach
Baseball America National High School Coach of the Decade for the 1990s
Head Coach of U.S. National 18-and-under team for 2004 Olympic Games