7-Player Baseball Revolution

By Joel Bradley

Baseball is in crisis. A game of skill, pressure, and action has become plodding, predictable, and slow. Steals, bat control, and great glovework have been replaced by strikeouts, walks, and home runs. The beauty of baseball has been pushed aside by muscle-bound swingers and throwers who are strangers to the essence of the game.

7-Player Baseball is the antidote to the slow death baseball is going through. 7-Player Baseball takes the game and its players back to its roots – hitting the ball, running the bases, playing team defense—with pressure applied through aggressive, strategic play, not with extending pitch counts and tedious trots around the bases.

7-Player Baseball was developed by Joel Bradley, coach of elite Florida high school players that include Anthony Rizzo, Luis Guillarme, Andy Painter, and many other major leaguers. What began for Bradley as a solution to training small-roster teams evolved into a thrilling and highly entertaining new form of baseball that also drives its players to improve all phases of their game.

Get all the essentials of the 7-game in the 7-Player Baseball Revolution. The book contains 10 brief chapters covering everything from the game’s 7 simple rules, to inside approaches to hitting, fielding, pitching, and baserunning, to relays, game situations, and improving players’ baseball IQ. Dozens of diagrams and photos illustrate proper position and technique.

7-Player Baseball is exactly the shot of adrenaline that baseball needs. Join the revolution!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Summer Game Books
• Release date: Sep 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781955398244

Book preview

As a kid growing up in small-town Texas, my dream of an endless summer was built around baseball—both organized, but even more—sandlot.

The elixir of shagging flies, cut grass, and the crack of ball on wood bats was pure heaven to me. One year, prior to the end of the school year, my mother told me I was going to a church camp for part of the summer. After I threatened to run away from home (which only led to her packing my bag) I promised to go to Vacation Bible School every day to make up for the spiritual setback I would suffer from missing church camp. It was the best Faustian bargain I could have made, because missing the baseball season would have been colder than a Siberian winter or even worse, having to attend summer