Inspirational story about a young man who loses his father at a young age.
Walter tells his life store from a young child to adulthood and how losing his father at a young age had a lasting impact on this life. His life story takes you back to a simpler time. A time when kids played outside until the street lights came on and the little things ment everything to young children in the neighborhood. The neighborhood had a lasting effect on Walter along with baseball, it was everything to the boys in the neighborhood. He relied on inspiration from his father to help guide him on his journey through life. Wonderful read!
It’s easy to get overwhelmed in a sea of travel ball schedules, competition, triumphs, and failures before you get there. After all, the road toward getting recruited is a long and bumpy one.
With that in mind, make sure you get your information right with The Recruiting Process: A Baseball Recruiting Guide for High School Players and Their Families by Walter Beede and Butch Baccala.
Written to help student-athletes navigate through the entire process-long before you even try to get recruited-this guide serves to supplement your understanding of the different divisions you can play in, from the NCAA to JUCO to NAIA.
Parents, do you want to know how college coaches evaluate your child and who and how they recruit? Written by a former NCAA head coach and—more importantly—a baseball dad, The Process shares with you what it takes to get there from Little League through high school.
The ultimate college baseball recruiting guide for parents in today’s post-House settlement era. The Shift is the essential travel baseball parents’ guide and high school baseball parents’ survival guide every baseball family needs right now. Coach and father Walter A. Beede delivers the straight-talk youth baseball recruiting advice parents need about baseball NIL transfer portal roster limits, the June Portal Tsunami, and why baseball family development over hype is more important than ever. In this fully revised March 2026 update, Beede breaks down the dramatic changes reshaping the entire pipeline. After the post-House settlement, many programs now operate under strict 34-man roster limits with scholarship flexibility. At the same time, DSA “designated student-athletes” and veteran transfers have made it harder than ever for true freshmen to earn playing time. College baseball is older, more selective, and far less forgiving for high school players. This is no longer just a recruiting story—it’s a complete survival guide through the new baseball reality.
In Fun Over Fear, former NCAA Head Coach, Chicago Cubs draft pick, longtime player-development coach, and father of Major League Baseball pitcher Tyler Beede shares the lessons he has learned from more than four decades in youth sports.
This book is not about creating the next superstar.
It is about helping young athletes ages 3–9 develop confidence, resilience, healthy habits, and a lifelong love of sports before youth athletics becomes overwhelmed by pressure, comparison, and unrealistic expectations.
