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Baseball Match Play
A listener posed a question to me: “Is there a correlation between competitive baseball and competitive match play golf?” It inspired me to propose alternate method of scoring baseball games that could apply especially well to youth baseball. In the light of the radical rule changes that Major League Baseball has instituted in the last…
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As Told to Me: An Encounter with Ron LeFlore
A childhood neighbor relates an experience of fielding a ground ball off the bat of Ron LeFlore, whose rise from the Jackson State Prison in Jackson, MI, to major-league all-star is well-known and -chronicled. This story, until now, was known by only a handful of witnesses and those who heard it first-hand, as I did.…
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Touching all Bases
The importance of base running is undervalued. This podcast seeks to illustrate the value of base running and the consequences of making mistakes on the base paths, which, in virtually every instance, are avoidable when the key ingredients of aggression, awareness, focus, and hustle are applied. Music: “Field Grass” by Sergei Pavkin email: bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com https://media.blubrry.com/3739195/content.blubrry.com/3739195/Touch_Bases.mp3Podcast:…
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A Game of Millimeters
Baseball is unique in that the smallest margins of error can determine which team wins or loses games or even World Series championships. In this podcast, I dissect two memorable and minute events that affected the outcome of the 1962 and the 1968 World Series. Get ready to examine them through the lens of a…
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The Anatomy of a Half-Inning
This podcast examines in detail the events and circumstances of bottom of the sixth inning of the 2001 Little League World Series Championship Game between Apopka, Florida and Tokyo, Japan. I watched this game live, and I relate, here and now, my observations at the time as a way to offer an alternative approach to…
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Tender Youth Arms
I was an assistant coach on a travel team in Southeast Michigan from 1999 to 2003, and one of our main priorities was to protect the arms of our young pitchers — with large measures of communication, conditioning, and common sense. This podcast goes into some detail about our approach to preventing even sore arms,…
What is All About Baseball?
All About Baseball is the podcast whose name fulfills its purpose: Sometimes baseball is the main character, sometimes it plays a supporting role, and sometimes it’s a silent partner. I started this podcast so I could share my passion for the game and the sport with a like-minded audience. The topics are varied and vibrant to maintain a fresh, vivid vibe to the podcast.
Byron Copley
Writer & Podcaster