07/01/2009 2:08 PM-
GetGreat.com features age-appropriate online lessons for players, coaches & parents
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2009 – For a limited time, every new annual subscriber to GetGreat.com will receive a FREE GetGreat.com T-shirt compliments of Ripken Baseball and MLB.com.
On March 6 of this year, Ripken Baseball and MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, announced a multi-year agreement to jointly operate a new youth baseball instructional site, GetGreat.com. There are currently more than 350 lessons available to subscribers. Each of these lessons follows a guided curricula developed by Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr., and 12-year Major League veteran Bill Ripken and are successfully implemented at the top baseball camp in the country, which is operated by Ripken Baseball.
The site will have age-appropriate instructional content suitable for kids – parents and coaches of kids – ages 8-18, utilizing video and easy to understand written descriptions, with the dual purpose of enhancing the fun for kids and furthering youth baseball support and development tools for parents and coaches. Among the features will be Coachable Moments, complete analysis and evaluation of Major League Baseball game highlights and top plays by Cal and Bill Ripken and other Major League players, managers and coaches.
“GetGreat.com (is) an interactive platform for coaches and parents to have ready access to our core instructional philosophy that we believe improves kids’ enjoyment and success on the field,” said Cal Ripken, Jr. “Combining these fundamental lessons with the video streaming technology and content of MLB.com will provide a next-generation teaching experience that will help grow the game.”
The online instructional lessons are divided into six key areas – hitting, pitching and defense with position-specific lessons, playing as a team, playing your position and an extra innings section. Each lesson strives to help improve core developmental areas, increase understanding of the game and provide tips and insight to help further reinforce instruction. The extra innings area will be built out to include expert advice on equipment selection; fitness, strength and conditioning training; health and safety; and sportsmanship.
Additional lessons will be added to GetGreat.com throughout the course of each Major League Baseball season to include key plays and teaching moments across every aspect of the game.
The annual all-access subscription to the entire library of GetGreat.com is $39.95 and includes a free GetGreat.com T-shirt. Individual courses are also available a la carte for $9.95.
About MLB.com
Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of Baseball’s Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information and interactivity on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game previews and summaries, extensive historical information, online ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live full-game video webcasts and on-demand highlights, live and archived audio broadcasts of every game, Gameday pitch-by-pitch application, around-the-clock hosted and specialty video programming and complete blogging capabilities. MLB.com offers more live events on the Internet than any other website in the world. |
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