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All About Baseball with Byron Copley

A podcast where baseball is the main character, a supporting player, or a silent partner. The possibilities are vast and varied.

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21:59

World Series Winners and Losers

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/10/14

This is about as "seat of the pants" as I have ever been, as I express my "nerdity" about the game of baseball in the form of waxing spontaneously over the winners and losers of World Series from 1903 to 2023 -- I have memorized them. During this "podcast without a safety net" I reveal a "license plate" game I play to keep the data base fresh in the "junk drawer" that is my mind, I offer some selected World Series stories, and, as a special bonus, I list all the winners and losers in order at the

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14:45

Major League Baseball: Overbranded and Overhyped

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/10/09

I expect that the title of this podcast reveals my opinion of MLB's current approach to partnering with corporations to raise revenue, awareness, and ROI. In my opinion, in-game advertising, that appears virtually everywhere in the course of a television broadcast, is a distraction to the play on the field. And, in the past, there was an organic connection between company sponsors and major-league teams. Now the arrangement seems stripped down to the contrived and transactional, no matter how much

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10:49

The Lessons of Moneyball Are Not New

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/10/03

Having read the book Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, I recognized that the approach that the Oakland A's front office took to hitting in 2002 was virtually identical to the approach that we applied in Little League in 1967. Yet, it was rejected and ridiculed by the "common wisdom" of MLB at the time. Why it did so remains a mystery, especially considering that a patient and deliberate approach to hitting was evident to us from the time we played organized baseball. Music: "Field Grass" Sergei

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18:18

After Baseball: Hank Aguirre, Businessman and...

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/28

After a 16-year Major League career, Hank Aguirre established a company called Mexican Industries in 1979, with the intent of employing fellow Mexicans and other minorities who lived in an area of Detroit called "Mexicantown." After several lean years, the company blossomed in to a $150,000,000 business by the time Hank died in 1994.Entrepreneur, community leader, and benefactor, Aguirre's story of a literal nuts-and-bolts beginning to an enterprise business is chronicled in the book "The Tall

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12:56

Obstruction, Interference, and Confusion

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/24

Even at the highest levels of the game, in the most critical situations, obstruction and interference create confusion and controversy among the best and brightest baseball minds. Here, I offer three examples of this, as well as one that I judged in much more obscure circumstances. Music: "Field Grass" by Sergei Pavkin email: bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com

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10:53

Episode #21: Milestone

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/19

You may have noticed that none of the other episodes in this podcast were numbered. This Episode #21 has a number because it represents a significant milestone: Only 1% of all podcasts ever get to Episode 21. So, now, All About Baseball us among the top 1% of all podcasts in the world in regards to the number of posted episodes. It seems like a low bar, but having put in the time effort (and money) to pursue this passion for sharing baseball content with a like-minded audience, I can see why most

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15:16

The 5,000-5,999 Plate Appearance MLB All-Time Team:...

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/14

An idea occurred to me to research former players who compiled year in and year out impressive offense while remaining in relative anonymity, so to speak, and who, by most accounts, are largely forgotten today, with a few exceptions. So I filtered, with the help of Fangraphs, those players who played from 1960 to 2023 with between 5,000 and 5,999 plate appearances and a career Weighted On Base Average, (wOBA) of .350 or higher.wOBA is perhaps the most-effective way to measure a player's ability

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8:49

Baseball Match Play

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/09

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 several years in the interest of accelerating the pace of play, my suggestion, in my opinion, isn't all that revolutionary. Listen and see if you

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8:24

As Told to Me: An Encounter with Ron LeFlore

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/05

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. Music: "Field Grass" Sergei Pavkov email: bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com

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17:05

Touching all Bases

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/09/01

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

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24:17

A Game of Millimeters

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/08/29

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 microscope -- millimeter by millimeter. Music: "Field Grass" Sergei Pavkin email: bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com The Physics and Timing of the Outfield Bounce Throw:

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18:45

The Anatomy of a Half-Inning

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/08/26

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 the strategies and tactics applied by both coaches, that possibly may have changed the outcome of what turned out to be a narrow 2-1 Tokyo, Japan victory. What I did not question, but

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28:13

Tender Youth Arms

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/08/21

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, and there's nothing complex about it. We considered as one of our most important accomplishments over those four years to be that every single pitcher under our supervision and tutelage

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15:21

Spectator Interference: Why?

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/08/14

In this podcast, I make an appeal for those who sit in the first row of a ballpark to let the ball come to them. There have been several famous and countless not-so-famous incidents of spectator interference that have possibly affected the outcomes of entire post seasons. I mention both and also make some recommendations that may or may not be acceptable to you listeners -- I look forward to your input and feedback -- that would minimize the opportunities for fans to inject them selves where they

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12:58

John McGraw, Camlio Doval, and John Hiller

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/08/11

A text with a friend who is a fan of the San Francisco Giants inspired this podcast that talks about John McGraw's style of baseball, which has gone the way of the maskless football helmet, the demotion to Triple A of the National League's 2023 save leader, 27-year-old Camlio Doval, and a comparison of Doval's 2023 season to the 1973 season of reliever John Hiller, the life-long Detroit Tiger, whose life was nearly drastically shortened by a heart attack in 1971. He was 27 years old at the time

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20:57

Who is to Blame for Batting Gloves?

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/08/06

This listener-requested topic spawned a podcast that burrows into several different rabbit holes, from how to grip the bat correctly to a discussion on the revenue-generating power of the batting-glove industry, to a Monet painting that was on display in The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas. This journey into the logic -- and illogic -- of the grip that the batting-glove marketplace has on the hearts and minds of virtually every ballplayer from Little League to MLB is just a

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17:48

Baseball Was in Our DNA (Update)

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/07/31

In the brief three-month summer window of June-July-August, from 1964 to 1967, we packed in countless hours of playing baseball on the neighborhood vacant lot just down the street. The value -- and the values -- we took away from that all-too-brief experience still resonate with me, and I hope with the kids who came from all around to play the only game we really loved, because baseball was in our DNA -- we were hard-wired to play it. We learned to compete fiercely and fairly, and we honed our

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10:31

The Day I Hated Baseball

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/07/27

In my effort to cover content that is All About Baseball, this is a personal account of a tragedy that occurred in a tournament game that involved my high-school team in 1974. Briefly, someone died and I saw it happen right in front of me. I would like to say that this surreal moment transformed me into a better person, but the suddenness and severity of the event was too much for a 17-year-old kid to process, and they way it was handled, though considered "normal" for the era, was still harsh and

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15:12

The Perfect One-Hit Game

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/07/22

On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tiger pitcher Armando Gallarraga retired 28 consecutive Cleveland Guardians (Then known as the Indians.) It just so happened that the 27th batter, Jason Donald, was called safe by veteran umpire Jim Joyce. As a result, this game stands in relief in comparison to all the other 238,000 + games that have been played by Major League baseball since 1869, because it serves as a lasting example of humility, compassion, empathy, and forgiveness -- reminding us all that baseball is a

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17:01

Outfield Play: Mindset over Method

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2024/07/17

I believe that with a proper mindset of anticipation, expectation, and pro-activity, outfielders gain precious milli-seconds of reaction time that can affect the outcome of a play. This is a personal account of the mindset I developed and refined as an outfielder from the age of 14 until I when I stopped playing organized baseball at age 19. I hope that this is also a universal story about patience, persistence, tenacity, and humility. To tell it, I have to delve into the details of what I

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