About
Baseball Positive offers youth baseball and softball instruction through Baseball Positive Skills Classes, Coach Training Clinics, and Summer Sandlot Games Camps. The program includes specific work on defensive responsibilities, batting practice drills, core concepts such as Ball, Base, Back-up (BBB), base running, and position-specific skills for catcher, infield, outfield, fly balls, and ground balls. Participants also take part in activities focused on playing catch, practice relays, warm-up, team drills, three groups drills, throwing and catching, batting, and other skill-building plans for coach pitch and tee-ball, along with Summer Camps 2026 plans for ages 8–10 and 10–12.
• Ages: 8–12 years old
Baseball Positive states its mission as helping create a coaching, learning, and playing environment that makes the on-field experience fulfilling and memorable for everyone, so that each child grows their passion for the game and has the desire to play again next year. The program works with youth leagues, coaches, players, and parents and serves as a one-stop resource for leagues’ coaches. Its website is geared for the 12U level of play, and all content is applicable to the youth level of softball, with a focus on communicating at kids’ level and based on the capabilities of younger bodies and minds.
Baseball Positive uses a step-by-step, building-block approach for teaching skills, running drills, and coordinated team play, and it provides activities and drills for parents to do with their kids. It offers youth baseball and softball instruction simplified, with an objective of demystifying how to teach the game to kids and simplifying the process of teaching and learning the game. The program supports novice and beginner coaches who do not need great knowledge and experience to teach at kids’ level, and it also supports experienced high school, college, and pro coaches in adjusting communication for kids. Baseball Positive and its website are produced to make the on-field experience fulfilling and memorable and to aim to increase player retention for leagues, and an email coaching tips subscription is available.
Mark Linden has been the Director of Baseball Positive from 2008 to the present. His background includes being a member of the Chicago Cubs organization in 1989 and 1990, serving as an assistant coach on Gene Stephenson’s staff at Wichita State from 1993 to 1995 and on June Raines’ University of South Carolina staff from 1995 to 1996, and working as head coach at Centenary College in Louisiana from 1996 to 1998 and at Skagit Valley Community College in Mount Vernon, WA from 2000 to 2003. He also worked as a radio color commentator for the Vancouver Canadians in 2007. Participating in organized baseball began for him in 1975, his official professional playing career concluded after his time with the Chicago Cubs organization, and from 2008 to the present he has led Baseball Positive, which is noted as © 2026 Baseball Positive.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
• Ages: 8–12 years old
Baseball Positive states its mission as helping create a coaching, learning, and playing environment that makes the on-field experience fulfilling and memorable for everyone, so that each child grows their passion for the game and has the desire to play again next year. The program works with youth leagues, coaches, players, and parents and serves as a one-stop resource for leagues’ coaches. Its website is geared for the 12U level of play, and all content is applicable to the youth level of softball, with a focus on communicating at kids’ level and based on the capabilities of younger bodies and minds.
Baseball Positive uses a step-by-step, building-block approach for teaching skills, running drills, and coordinated team play, and it provides activities and drills for parents to do with their kids. It offers youth baseball and softball instruction simplified, with an objective of demystifying how to teach the game to kids and simplifying the process of teaching and learning the game. The program supports novice and beginner coaches who do not need great knowledge and experience to teach at kids’ level, and it also supports experienced high school, college, and pro coaches in adjusting communication for kids. Baseball Positive and its website are produced to make the on-field experience fulfilling and memorable and to aim to increase player retention for leagues, and an email coaching tips subscription is available.
Mark Linden has been the Director of Baseball Positive from 2008 to the present. His background includes being a member of the Chicago Cubs organization in 1989 and 1990, serving as an assistant coach on Gene Stephenson’s staff at Wichita State from 1993 to 1995 and on June Raines’ University of South Carolina staff from 1995 to 1996, and working as head coach at Centenary College in Louisiana from 1996 to 1998 and at Skagit Valley Community College in Mount Vernon, WA from 2000 to 2003. He also worked as a radio color commentator for the Vancouver Canadians in 2007. Participating in organized baseball began for him in 1975, his official professional playing career concluded after his time with the Chicago Cubs organization, and from 2008 to the present he has led Baseball Positive, which is noted as © 2026 Baseball Positive.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
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