The Baseball Handbook Paperback - 2002

Bernard P. Walter, Jr., has been the head coach at Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland, since 1974. With Coach Walter at the helm, Arundel has won a record-setting nine Maryland State Baseball Championships and is a three-time national coach of the year.

Walter has coached 55 former or current major leaguers, including Denny Neagle, Mike Mussina, and John Smoltz. He has been named National High School Baseball Coach of the Year by the National High School Baseball Coaches Association (1993), the National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches Association (1996), and the American Baseball Coaches Association (1998). He's the only baseball coach to have been recognized by Disney's American Teacher Awards. He was the head coach for the USA Baseball Junior National Team in 1988 and 1990, and he has been a frequent clinician at national coaching clinics. He is one of only seven U.S. coaches to ever win a World Championship. He also wrote USA Baseball's Coaches Education Program, and he's the educational consultant for MLB Productions' "This Week in Baseball."

Walter holds a bachelor of science degree in physical education from the University of Maryland at College Park. A member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, he is certified as an athletic administrator with the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators' Association (NIAAA) and as a leader level instructor with the National Federation Interscholastic Coaches' Education Program (NFICEP). In his free time, he enjoys gardening, going to the movies, and spending time with his family. He and his wife, Barbara, are residents of Linthicum, Maryland.