American Baseball Coaches Association

Clinic Events: The ABCA hosts 6 clinic events around the U.S. on an annual basis to teach coaching methods and techniques to coaches of youth, high school and college baseball teams. The ABCA Convention is the world's largest baseball coaching clinic. The convention clinics promote education and training in coaching, leadership, sportsmanship, and ethics with 5616 coaches attending in 2025, out of 14,655 active member coaches for the fiscal year ending 4/30/25, during which 23 well-known clinic speakers provided presentations to the attendees in the general session for three days. The ABCA also ran a Youth Coaches Clinic during the Convention which was attended by about 800 coaches for 13 sessions during two days, and the ABCA Expo Theater included 20 additional educational presentations during the Convention. The ABCA Regional Coaching Clinics are one-day events are conducted around the country and average 60 coaches in attendance. The clinic presentations are similar to those conducted at the annual convention. The ABCA sponsors youth clinics at the NAIA and NJCAA World Series, involving over 500 young people each, and runs one free clinic at an inner-city location each year. The ABCA also provides a grant to International Sports Group, which conducts educational coaching clinics around the world, as well as Turn Two for Youth, which provides used baseball equipment to children in need.

Publications and Websites: "Inside Pitch Magazine" is the Official Magazine of the ABCA, continued with six issues annually. It is mailed to all current ABCA member coaches featuring baseball coaching articles, articles about the game in general, association and membership updates, legislation, and issues involving the game of baseball. The ABCA primary website (www.abca.org) is a helpful, informative tool to coaches. From 5/1/24 to 4/30/25, the ABCA received 2,343,894 page views for an average of 195,325 page views per month. The website contains more than 1,000 educational videos, information about ABCA/Human Kinetics books, a podcast, and other coaching resources. The "My ABCA" mobile app has had more than 20,000 individual ABCA members download and log in since its launch in 2019. The app contains coaching resources, articles and instructional videos as well as access to ABCA events and membership information.