All About Baseball with Byron Copley

All About Baseball with Byron Copley


The Head-First Slide is Not a Heads-Up Play

March 12, 2025

In this podcast, I offer three reasons why a head-first slide is not recommended by me, an alternative that is far more effective and safer, and a description of an my makeshift office-studio and the book that inspired this specific podcast.


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Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin


MLB Sliding Injuries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8xV5C387Lw


Siding Photo on the cover of Bill James Historical Abstract: https://www.catchershome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mickey-Cochrane-dive-1536×1201.jpg