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title: FungoMan Journal | Baseball
description: Baseball | Find limitless innovation in the latest stories from FungoMan. Browse baseball and softball coaching and training articles, and get to know the people, places and innovations that drive the game forward.
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# FUNGOMAN JOURNAL
*Stories to inspire training.*
### We’ve spent over 20 years challenging traditional ideas with innovative, training-intuitive platforms evolving our products, powering our design ethos, and celebrating our athletic community.
## Feature Story
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/assessing-natural-movement-vs.-one-size-fits-all-system)
Department of FungoMan Archives
## Empowering Athletes and Those Who Train Them
We built our technology from a dad's desire to empower his son with better training. Our latest articles honor ideas of the past and advance them in service of tomorrow's generation of athletes.
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[Coaching](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[5 Helpful Tactics Coaches To Use After a Loss with Romy Cucjen](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[FungoMan President, high school coach, and professional baseball player, Romy Cucjen shares his shortlist for handling a tough loss.](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
Training
7 Creative Infield Drills To Effectively Develop Players with Trent Mongero
Winning Baseball fielding guru, ABCA Coach of the year, Trent Mongero shares infield drills you'll want to implement in your next practice.
[Coaching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QxMOkDNj-g&t=380s)
[Scouting Talent with Jerry Manuel](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/8-baseball-practice-secrets-for-the-coach-who-wins-championships-checklist)
"The Sage" Jerry Manuel is former MLB Player, Manager, Coach, MLB Network Analyst, and CEO of the Jerry Manuel Foundation. He shares on scouting talent—seeing movement and rhythm.
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Introducing FungoMan, our most significant training innovation. The platform revolutionizes traditional training methods by hacking exact line drives, ground balls, fly balls for the purpose of making a premium efficiency-minded product. It's time to games. But first, let's win practice.
### Latest Stories
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### [A Scout of Greatness: Mel Didier \[Video Tribute\]](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/mel-didier)
in [Baseball](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/baseball)
on Oct 26, 2017 7:00:00 AM
By [Camille D.C. Sutton](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton)
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It's October 15, 2017 at Dodger Stadium and Los Angeles's Justin Turner has just hit a walk off home run against the Chicago Cubs to send them to the World Series. Rewind 29 years, and it's 1988 at Dodger Stadium and Kirk Gibson has just hit a walk off home run against the Oakland A's Dennis Eckersley, on a 3-2 count slider. When you watch the replay of this moment, it's looks as if Gibson knew what was coming...and you know what? He did, thanks to Mel Didier.
[Read More](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/mel-didier)
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/barehanded-baseball-plays)
### [10 Unbelievable Barehanded Plays That Got Outs \[Videos\]](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/barehanded-baseball-plays)
in [Baseball](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/baseball)
on May 2, 2017 7:00:00 AM
By [Camille D.C. Sutton](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton)
[Leave a comment](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/barehanded-baseball-plays/#comments-listing)
DISCLAIMER: Fundamentals should always be stressed at every level of play. Over the course of the season, those who execute with great fundamentals will always end up with better results than those who seek cavalier showmanship. HOWEVER, there are game times, when the situation presents itself, and there is no alternative course of action besides figuring out a way to make the play on the fly, on the run, or both. Here are a few impressively, unbelievable barehanded plays that got outs.
[Read More](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/barehanded-baseball-plays)
### [You Need To Know This Baseball Guy \[Jerry Manuel Foundation\]](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/jerry-manuel-foundation)
in [Baseball](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/baseball)
on Apr 25, 2017 7:00:00 AM
By [Camille D.C. Sutton](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton)
1 Comment
Every so often, we hear baseball stories that move us. This one isn't happening under the bright lights of the Major League stage. This is a story unfolding in Sacramento, CA, where urban youth are given an opportunity to receive Charter School quality education, while receiving elite baseball training from the legendary Jerry Manuel and his team. Get inspired by how Jerry Manuel is using baseball to build character in the next generation of young men in life and the game.
[Read More](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/jerry-manuel-foundation)
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