It’s All About the Kids

About the Book

Take a journey into the magical yet sometimes complicated world of youth baseball through the eyes of a volunteer coach. It’s All about the Kids is a fascinating compilation of fictional stories based on actual events as retold by Scooter Stevens, a youth baseball coach for over ten years. From baseball to soccer, from basketball to football, from lacrosse to hockey, hundreds of thousands of children participate in all types of youth sports across the United States each season. Regardless of the sport the reader played as a child, coached as an adult, or had children participate in, Scooter Stevens masterfully recounts humorous, lighthearted, and sometimes unsettling stories about the ever-present dark side of youth sports. From West Palm Beach to Westlake, from Tidewater to Tacoma, It’s All about the Kids will be relatable to any reader who has ever experienced youth sports!

About the Author

Author Scooter Stevens has a unique perspective regarding an aspect of life that virtually every parent and child experiences at least once in their lifetime: youth sports. Scooter Stevens not only played youth baseball, basketball, and football since the age of five through his high school years but, as a parent of two children, he also has experienced youth sports from the prospective of a parent. Additionally, he has over ten years of experience coaching various youth sports, most notably his favorite, baseball. Scooter Stevens has coached over seven hundred youth baseball games during his coaching career. In the process, he has instructed hundreds of players between the ages of five through seventeen, and he has dealt with a vast spectrum of adult and parental personalities. As a result, he offers a wonderfully distinctive and entertaining fictional perspective of youth baseball based on his and other’s coaching experiences.