The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of video-based perceptual training on novice baseball players' anticipation ability (pitch type, timing, and course) and batting performance. It has been proved that perceptual training is effective for the development of anticipation ability, but former studies have never focused on its influence on batting performance. Furthermore, considering the characteristics of batting, anticipation accuracy is much more important than anticipation speed (Burroughs, 1984). However, little is known about anticipation accuracy. Therefore, the main focus of this study was the development of anticipation accuracy and its effects on batting performance. The subjects were 24 male junior high school baseball players and 12 male collegiate baseball players. Twenty-four novice players were randomly assigned to a training group (TR) or a control group (C). The collegiate baseball players served as experts for comparison with the novice groups. In the learning periods, cues for anticipation were taught to the TR. Then, the TR anticipated pitch type, timing and courses after watching temporally occluded video footage. After each trial, feedback was given immediately. In the pre-test, the experts showed significantly higher anticipation accuracy than the TR and C. Before and after the test in the TR, the correct answers for pitch type and course were significantly increased, and the absolute error of timing was significantly decreased. Finally, the anticipation accuracy of the TR reached the same level as the experts. These results clearly show that perceptual training is effective for improvement of anticipation accuracy. Likewise, in the batting test of the TR, both the proportion of hits and the proportion of hits into fair ground were significantly increased after the test in comparison with before the test. These facts indicate that video-based perceptual training is effective not only for anticipation accuracy but also improvement of batting performance.