Baseball Positive

Baseball Positive offers youth baseball and softball instruction through Baseball Positive Skills Classes, Coach Training Clinics, and Summer Sandlot Games Camps. Activities include batting practice drills, throwing and catching, playing catch, base running, and batting. Participants work on specific fielding skills such as ground balls, fly balls, infield, outfield, catcher, practice relays, team drills, three groups drills, warm-up, skill building, and the Ball, Base, Back-up (BBB) concept.

• Ages: 8–12 years old
• Price: $100/game (radio color commentator job for the Vancouver Canadians in 2007)

Baseball Positive is led by Mark Linden, who has been Director of Baseball Positive from 2008 to the present. The mission of Baseball Positive is to help 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 Baseball Positive website is geared for the 12U level of play and provides plans for ages 10–12, ages 8–10, coach pitch, and tee-ball, with content that includes defensive responsibilities, a wide range of specific drills and core concepts, and activities and drills for parents to do with their kids. All content is applicable to the youth level of softball, and the website offers a private members-only section.

Mark Linden’s background includes being a member of the Chicago Cubs organization in 1989 and 1990, serving as an assistant coach at Wichita State from 1993 to 1995 and at the University of South Carolina 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 played four seasons of semi-pro ball in his late 20s and early 30s and worked as radio color commentator for the Vancouver Canadians, a minor league affiliate of the Oakland A’s, in the summer of 2007. He works with youth leagues, coaches, players, and parents, and has worked with a dozen leagues, their coaches, and players. The Baseball Positive website is for coaches, leagues, and parents and is produced along with the programs with the objective of simplifying the process of teaching and learning the game through a step-by-step, building-block approach, a sequence for adding skills and drills, and coaching based on the capabilities of younger bodies and minds.

Last updated April 5, 2026.