All About Baseball with Byron Copley

It is a privilege to have Jeff Frye make a guest appearance on All About Baseball. Our 45-minute discussion covers a wide variety of topics. I am ever grateful to Jeff for agreeing to relate his story of the advent and the conclusion of his nine-year MLB career as well as his opinions on the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…