Beyond the Baseline owner Gary Thrapp releasing book to help parents of children in youth sports

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) – After spending more than 40 years in youth sports as a coach, referee, parent and owner of Beyond the Baseline, Gary Thrapp is releasing a book he wrote titled “The Wild World of Youth Sports.” The book provides more than 150 strategies to help parents provide positive experiences for their children in youth sports.

“The strategies are really all inclusive regardless of whether you have a dime or whether you are rich you can utilize these to help your child succeed so but that really emphasizes one of the huge issues we have right now in youth sports and that’s the opportunity gap. If you do have money there’s tremendous opportunities for you out there if you don’t then you can struggle quite honestly and you’re not sure which direction to go so proceeds for the book, much of the proceeds for the book are going to go to our programs to help youth sports for everyone we like to make sure we have opportunities for everyone” said Thrapp.

The book will be available soon on Amazon and by visiting Thrapp’s website.

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