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Five Joyful Minutes: Coach Beede's Long Game, Story Three
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Beede Baseball Publishing LLC
Published: Nov 16 2026
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Stop while he still wants more.
Dad was a coach. A good one. When his son turned four, Dad made a plan: forty minutes, six stations, a clipboard. The first Saturday was fine. By the third, the boy had gone upstairs to his room.
So Dad called Coach Beede. Coach Beede came over on Sunday, and he did not bring a clipboard. He asked two questions. How long does the boy play with his truck? How long can he sit still at dinner? Five minutes, on a good night.
There is your practice, said Coach Beede. Five minutes. Then you stop. Not him. You.
The next day Dad went out with one ball. Soft tosses. A first catch. A laugh. And then the hardest part: walking away while the boy asked for one more.
Five Joyful Minutes is the third story in Coach Beede's Long Game, for parents of the youngest athletes and the fathers who made a plan that was too long. The book closes with Tonight's Five Minutes, a simple game for any parent and child to play tonight.
Watch the series: Coach Beede's Long Game on YouTube, youtube.com/@CoachBeedeLongGame. More for parents, including Fun Over Fear, Coach Beede's guide for parents of athletes ages three to nine, is at CoachBeede.com.
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