All About Baseball with Byron Copley
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Baseball-Oriented Christmas Gifts
For the baseball fans in your family, I offer several Christmas-gift suggestions that should delight them. None of them are all that expensive, but I hope that they would become priceless over time.
Baseball Games You Can Play
As we enter the Holiday Season, it's often a time for fun-filled games as a way to laugh and bond with friends and family. In this podcast, I offer a few games that only require a simple love and know
It’s Time to End Interleague Play in MLB
One way or another, it's time to end interleague play in MLB. Either merge the leagues into one and create even more balance in the scheduled games to blur the lines between the leagues completely, or
Why is Bunting so Controversial? (Updated Dec 4)
OOPS. Somehow the unedited version of this podcast was initially posted rather than the edited one. Apologies. So I encourage you to listen to what was intended to be heard. For decades, bunting wa
Ode to My Younger Brother
On November 22, 2015, my younger brother, Christopher, passed away in his sleep. This podcast commemorates his death and expresses sadness for my not spending more time sharing my passion for basebal
Lou Whitaker is a First-Ballot Hall of Famer
This rather rash statement, to some, is axiomatic to me, and I think that the numbers back up my claim. Yet, Whitaker, who played 19 seasons for the Detroit Tigers and saved some of his best seasons f
Pining for the Wood Bat
There are inherent and lasting advantages for youth baseball players to use wood bats, which have been supplanted by the proliferation of metal and composite bats. This podcast enumerates those advant
How Did They Last This Long in the Major Leagues?
As a counterpoint to an earlier podcast, "The 5,000-5,999 Plate Appearance MLB All-Time Team: 1960-2023," I flipped that idea on its head and researched MLB players, using Fangraphs and Baseball Refer
“Miscues” and Misfortune: New York Yankees
The top of the 5th inning of World Series Game 5 reinforced the capricious and chaotic nature of baseball, compounded by chance and circumstance, amplified by critics who, according to Theodore Roosev
The Oldest Players of Major League Baseball
I was ruminating over a conversation that I had with a client more than 15 years ago in which I discovered that he was the grandson-in-law to a Hall-of-Fame ballplayer who was one of the oldest player