Obnoxious Parents and Ruthless Coaches

— Randy Corwin

An angry baseball.

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A Little League field in late summer, early evening, with the lights on.
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Baseball and all youth sports teach kids valuable “life lessons”, but not when their role model parents and coaches behave like lunatics! With a biting, sarcastic sense of humor, this parent, coach and umpire analyzes why seemingly intelligent adults lose their minds over kids playing baseball. With true stories about coaches fighting, umpires needing police protection from parents, and behind the scenes politics, these tales will give you a good laugh while making you wonder:

“What the hell’s wrong
with these people?”

Obnoxious Parents and Ruthless Coaches is a must read for anyone who’s ever been involved in youth sports as a player or official and should be REQUIRED reading for parents and coaches of athletes! While telling hilarious anecdotes of outrageous adult behavior, a powerful message is being sent for adults to grow up, stop ruining the games, and just let the kids play. The stories you will read are true, but the names have been changed to protect the GUILTY!

Cartoon in which a parent stands with his sad child in front of him, yelling "First pitch—fast ball. Next "devastating changeup"!" to a coach who is thinking: "Seriously? He's 9!"
An illustration from the book.
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Praise from Dan Shaughnessy

“Randy Corwin does a nice job explaining why you NEVER volunteer to umpire at a kid’s game! Both amusing and instructive, parents of young athletes can learn a lot from these stories.”

—Dan Shaughnessy is a sports
columnist for the Boston Globe.

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