Nike Baseball and The Strike Zone's Diamond Sports Professionals have teamed up to offer an exciting opportunity for baseball players aged 8-12 to showcase their talent and receive instruction from the area's finest staff. 

 

Directing the camp is Academy Director and a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, Phil Apostle.  After a successful high school and collegiate career and two stints in major league camps, Phil turned his attention to coaching and turned his obsession with hitting a baseball into a full-time pursuit. Coach Apostle has given more private lessons over the last decade than anyone else known on the North Shore and consistently turns out the areas finest and confident hitters. Through his youth and young adult educations at the finest hitting schools in the country, he studied under a host of major league players and coaches as well as some of the country's best hitting instructors.

 

Today, Coach Apostle combines the finest points of linear movement with rotational power in his teaching. Coach Apostle is also the founder and Director of the "Boys of Summer" advanced hitting camps and currently has over twenty students playing at all levels of collegiate and professional baseball. Over the past six years Coach Apostle's students have earned 33 I.H.S.A. all conference honors as well as seven division one scholarships. In addition, he has coached several traveling teams from 11 year-olds through 18 year-olds on the North Shore and has earned National births four times and two state titles. Currently, he is the Head Coach of the new Chicago Jacks 17U baseball club.

 

Join Phil and an all-star staff of collegiate and professional players and coaches for this one-week program in July.  Hitting, throwing, advanced baserunning, fielding and team-building concepts will all be part of the curriculum.  This will be the finest series offered to athletes of this age anywhere this summer and we would love to have you join us!  We promise a great time and more knowledge and improvement than you can imagine!

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