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DEEP DOWN IN HIS SOUL, RICK Peterson, the 48-year-old pitching coach for the Oakland Athletics, considers himself an old school baseball person. But when he starts talking about biomechanics, Eastern philosophy, right brain and left brain activities, and mental and emotional performance enhancement techniques, older old school guys just roll their eyes. They got along fine without any of that stuff. To many of them, pitching is as simple as "Work fast, throw strikes, change speeds."
Peterson, who's been a coach for half his life, is used to those reactions. "I've run into resistance to what I was trying to do my whole career," he says, "trying to change from the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A's pitching coach Rick Peterson using a philosophical approach to...