All About Baseball with Byron Copley

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 knowledge of baseball and a desire to experience it with others. Oh, and a little sidetracking…

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 revert to the days when the two leagues were separate and distinct. Comments: byroncopley.com email: bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com Music: “Field Grass”…

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 was a staple of a Major League Baseball team’s offensive strategy. Now, it’s considered a penalizing measure in the effort to score…

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 baseball with him. email: bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com Music: “Field Grass” Sergei Pavkin https://media.blubrry.com/3739195/content.blubrry.com/3739195/Brother.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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 for last, was only on the Hall of Fame ballot once, where he received only 2.9% of all…

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 advantages, and advocates the value of the experience of stepping to the plate with a bat made of wood — an experience that every youth…