Garden City Travel Baseball Skills Clinic

Dan Bautch gives the green light.

On January 28th, the Garden City Travel Baseball Program hosted a special skills clinic at the new Frozen Ropes baseball facility in Garden City. The clinic focused on three specific areas: pitching, catching and baserunning with the goal of sharpening each player's skills in these three key areas of the game .

Four very qualified instructors lent their support to the clinc. Ed Lamarr, former pitching coach at St. John's University, showed the players several drills designed to improve their pitching mechanics and strike to ball ratio. Phil Seskin, a former all-league catcher at Adelphi University, worked with the future LoDuca's and Posada's on ways to become a better defensive catcher. Dan Bautch, former stolen base record holder from the University of Notre Dame, ran drills that he has used to become a much more effective baserunner and base stealer. And, Frank Amoroso, a former College World Series pitcher at St. John's, covered a variety of ways to grip a baseball in order to make the ball dance away from a hitter's sweet spot.

The clinic's organizer and travel baseball manager John Sorensen would like to thank Mr. Lamarr, Mr. Seskin, Mr. Bautch and Mr. Amoroso for their time and efforts in sharing their expertise with the players. Plans call for more special skills clinics for the future baseball stars of Garden City.

Ed Lamarr instructs on the proper follow-through.

Garden City league president Chris DeSantis and travel baseball managers Scott Kiley and Tom Bruno have been instrumental in organizing special memberships and practice schedules throughout February and March for all of the GC travel baseball players.

Phil Seskin runs a great blocking drill for catchers. Instructors Bautch and Seskin work with GC's best. John Sorensen runs through a shuffle-step drill. Future pitching stars learn some of the basics. Frank Amoroso displays the two-seam fastball grip.