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Interview: Samuel Skinner, High School Varsity Baseball Coach
In this episode of all All About Baseball, I interview Coach Samuel Skinner, Varsity baseball coach at South Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He offers a unique and universal account of his experience as a coach, mentor, and student of the game. I think anyone who loves the game of baseball will appreciate…
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Replay: 715 – The Moment I Missed, and Then Realized
On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record on national television. Because today, April 8, 2026, is the 52nd anniversary of that event, I thought that I would replay one of the earliest episodes of All About Baseball that recounts my personal experience of that moment when Aaron’s bat made…
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The Politics of Baseball and the Anti-Trust Exemption
Major League Baseball, unlike the other professional sports in the United States, has been exempt from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act since 1922, meaning that no competitive professional baseball league can be established to directly compete with MLB for its players, fans, or markets. Still, that hasn’t prevented a few United States legislators from threatening to…
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What Should be in a Nickname?
That’s the question that this episode of All About Baseball answers. A listener requested an episode on nicknames, and I tried to place a larger context around the topic and opine that nicknames no longer, “augment a given name and provide a richer and more explicit denotation.” But that’s only part of this story. Listen…
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The Devolution of the Check Swing
In this episode, I, unfortunately, rant somewhat on yet another tinkering of the rules of baseball, using technology to yet again supplant the human factor, which, once ensconced in the game, is “progressively” taking a back seat to machines. “Hey, IT says so!” Controversy resolved, right? As we ignore the larger controversy of handing the…
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The Mysterious Fourth Out
Baseball has numerous interesting and quirky rules. Perhaps none more so than the “Fourth Out Situation,” where an extra out can be made and applied to replace the third out made in an inning. This episode offers a hypothetical example that is a literal game-changer, and it also recounts two specific incidents in Major League…
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