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Every parent will want to give their baseball and softball players a copy of ON DECK for their birthday-Barton D. Schmitt, M.D., Bestselling Author of Your Child's Health"Each brief chapter stands alone, offering clear, practical advice and insight regarding the challenges and opportunities life throws our way."-Gail Reichlin, Founder and Executive Director, Parents Resource Network; and, Bestselling Author of The Pocket Parent Everything a child needs to know about life can be learned from the dugout steps. Every pitch, hit, and play on the baseball field is its own life lesson. From taking charge under a pop fly, to taking risks on the base paths, to taking heart on the bench, THE ON DECK CIRCLE OF LIFE connects parents and their kids through the analogies, axioms, and allegories that baseball offers for life off the field. The author brings his unique perspective as pediatrician, teacher, kids' baseball coach, and parent to this book of 101 life lessons. As an internationally recognized pediatric specialist and professor, Dr. Harley Rotbart has been named to Best Doctors in America every year since 1996. As a kids' baseball coach, from T-ball through high school, Coach Harley has studied the fine points of a fine game. He has used baseball to guide his players, his patients, and his own kids in everything from homework, humility and helping others, to dating, driving and drugs. Written for kids of all ages to read, and for parents to read over their kids' shoulders, this is a warm and wise playbook for the game of life.

Harley A. Rotbart, M.D. is Professor and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has authored nearly 200 medical and scientific publications, but this is the best baseball book he has ever written! He and his wife, Sara, live in Denver with their 3 teenage kids.