All About Baseball with Byron Copley

All About Baseball with Byron Copley


Latest Episodes

Mayhem at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium: How Did it Happen?
June 15, 2025

On June 4, 1974, an actual riot took place on the field of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, where more than 1,000 drunk and disorderly fans, intoxicated by drinking beers that cost a mere 10 cents, lost

The Major League All-Star Game Needs to Pick the Best Players
June 08, 2025

You'd think that this was already the case, but it isn't, and it should be. With bloated rosters, defections, replacements at the last minute, mandatory representation of every team, starting pitchers

A Foolproof Way to Protect Your Signs
June 04, 2025

Sign stealing is an ancient discipline and it perfectly legal when people directly involved in the game observe base coaches with the naked eye. At all levels, signs are a visual code that communicate

The MLB Baseball Uniform is Anything but Uniform
May 30, 2025

A curious assertion, given that the majority of MLB ballplayers wear their uniforms in one of two ways: with the pants at knee-level (or above) or as full-length pants that drape over the shoes. Unima

The Day that Babe Ruth Should Have Retired from Baseball
May 25, 2025

Ninety years ago today, May 25, 1935, Babe Ruth, now with the last-place Boston Braves, capped his 22-season career with a banner day against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field. This podcast expre

The Mystery of Javier Baez’s Transformation
May 20, 2025

What is up with Javier Baez? I looked at the numbers in detail to find out HOW Javier Baez has improved so dramatically in 2025 compared to 2024, because they can't lie. Many of Baez's stats are drast

A Losing Bet: The Reinstatement of Pete Rose
May 15, 2025

Not much more to say about the content of this podcast, except for that it references, obviously, the movies American Grafitti, Casablanca, and Animal House. More to the point, it's somewhat ironic to

You Need to Listen to “The Midnight Library of Baseball”
May 10, 2025

"The Midnight Library of Baseball," by Ben Orlando, is the podcast that inspired me to create "All About Baseball," and my podcast is loosely modeled after Orlando's. I want to share Orlando's podcas

When is it Time to Call Time?
May 07, 2025

In a recent game between the Reds and the Braves, where Braves' first basemen Matt Olsen was awarded an inside-the-park home run, I think that the umpires missed the opportunity to apply Rule 5:12 (b)

Is the Torpedo Bat a Dud?
May 01, 2025

The numbers seem to indicate that the players who regularly use the Torpedo Bat are not, in most cases, hitting the target in regards to improved offense when compared to March/April 2024. Only a few