American Baseball Coaches

Publications and Websites: "Inside Pitch Magazine" is the Official Magazine of the ABCA, continued with six issues annually. It is mailed to all current ABCA member coaches featuring baseball coaching articles, articles about the game in general, association and membership updates, legislation, and issues involving the game of baseball. The ABCA primary website (www.abca.org) is a helpful, informative tool to coaches. From 5/1/23 to 4/30/24, the ABCA received 2,246,302 page views for an average of 187,191 page views per month. The website contains more than 800 educational videos, information about ABCA/Human Kinetics books, a podcast, and other coaching resources. The "My ABCA" mobile app which has since had more than 14,000 individual ABCA members download and log in since its launch in 2019. The app contains coaching resources, articles and instructional videos as well as access to ABCA events and membership information.

Awards to members: ABCA awards include the Hall of Fame; Lefty Gomez Award; Ethics in Coaching Award; Head Coaches of the Year, Assistant Coaches of the Year Award; Youth Baseball Service Award, Travel Baseball Service Award, Century Club Awards; and Lifetime Membership Awards. Award programs to serve amateur baseball include selection of the national players of the year, All-America, All-Region and Gold Glove Teams from each division: NCAA I, II, and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division and high school, collegiate conference champions, as well as regional and national coaches of the year and Team Academic Excellence Awards from each of the aforementioned divisions.