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Believe it or not, it took the Red Sox 86 years to win their first World Series since 1918! But that horrendous error by Bill Buckner remains unforgotten. On a clear day, you can still hear the chattering from Boston: "He blew it" ... "He lost his cool" ... "It was just one of those things" ... "Buck just never had that mental toughness ..."

What about mental toughness? Despite the fact that most coaches and elite athletes agree that mental toughness plays a critical role in clutch situations, it is still a concept that remains difficult to define and teach, and it leads to the $64,000 question:

"Do coaches have the ability to assess and improve their athletes' capacities for mental toughness?"

There is an obvious need for definition, intervention in, and evaluation of the construct. Before coaches can observe mentally tough attributes in their players, they must establish a definition of the attributes that makes up the term.

Only then will the coach be able to produce an instrument that will help him recognize the mental strengths and weaknesses of their athletes and to design their training programs to fit the needs of their individual athletes and teams.

Since every athlete or team is...

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