The development of talents for baseball in Cuba: a necessary requirement in contemporary times

Abstract

The research that is presented has as its fundamental objective, to provide a methodological proposal for Test to detect athletes with aptitudes and possible talents for baseball. This proposal means for teachers-coaches, a preparation tool in order to favor the results of the diagnosis of the level of physical condition and sports skills in athletes. In the same way, it supports a new knowledge for the evaluation and characterization in the recruitment and development of talents. The evaluation of the antecedents that mark this theme revealed several concepts and models for attracting talents, however, they do not achieve an adequate process of sports teaching during the initiation stage, since they expose a systemic approach in the technical, methodological and pedagogical order. On the other hand, there is the gap opened by other research by arguing that talent must possess combinations of physical, motor and psychological abilities; That is why the present work contemplates such an aspect. Some figures are even of the opinion that the player is born with natural conditions that develop during training: the present authors assume that position by indicating that the solution is given in practice. For the development of the investigative process, various scientific methods were used, such as analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive, and percentage calculation to process the data. Among the results achieved, it stands out that the preparation and application of the tests allowed detecting a favorable incidence in the practitioners for physical and semantic skills in order to achieve better sports results.