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All About Baseball with Byron Copley — 135 episodes

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1

The Season I Forgot

2

Replay: The 1971 All-Star Game – I Was There

3

What Lies at the End of Buster Posey’s Rainbow?

4

The Draft Is In Between Rob Manfred’s Ears

5

Replay: In Memoriam, Stuart Mitchell Copley, January 4, 1989 – June 27, 2025

6

Interview with Ed Achorn: Author of Two Must-Read Books About 19th Century Professional Baseball

7

Why Can’t MLB Umpires Admit That They Are Wrong — When They Are?

8

Was Hector Borg a Scapegoat for the Giants’ Failure?

9

Why Don’t Pitchers Pitch Anymore?

10

The Disastrous Detroit Tigers

11

Book Review: The Summer of Beer and Whiskey

12

Support The Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson’s

13

Interview: Cormac Terry, Former College Baseball Pitcher

14

Interview: Jeff Frye, former MLB player

15

Interview: Samuel Skinner, High School Varsity Baseball Coach

16

Replay: 715 – The Moment I Missed, and Then Realized

17

The Politics of Baseball and the Anti-Trust Exemption

18

What Should be in a Nickname?

19

The Devolution of the Check Swing

20

The Mysterious Fourth Out

21

Book Review: The New York Game

22

Is It Possible to Play Quantum Baseball?

23

Why Did The Tigers Sign Justin Verlander to a Major League Contract?

24

A Tale of Clashing Personalities: Why there was no World Series in 1904

25

Remembering Mickey Lolich: A Humble, Grateful Man

26

The AI Revolution

27

Three Things I Really Like About Baseball

28

Humility Personified (Continued)

29

Humility Personified

30

My Neighbor Ryan Shares his Experiences as a D1 College Baseball Player

31

Baseball’s Valuable Lessons: Accountability, Humility, Objectivity, and Charity

32

(2026) New Year, New Ideas

33

Replay: Hank Aguirre, Businessman and Humanitarian

34

Book Review: Tinkers to Evers to Chance

35

All About (the) Baseball

36

What Should The Tigers do With Tarik Skubal?

37

A Message of Thanks and A Preview of Future Episodes

38

The Three-Fingered Pitcher

39

MLB Should Be All Out of Gambling

40

post hoc ergo prompter hoc

41

Do Major League Baseball Owners Really Get What They are Paying For?

42

Calling it Quits as an Umpire

43

Big Little-League Mistakes

44

Dick Bartell Held on to the Baseball

45

The 97-Win Threshold is not as Easy as it Appears

46

Replay: The Honorable Sacrifice of Jack T. Jamison

47

Data is too Dated to Remember

48

A Collapse of Epic Proportions (Reprise)

49

Yankees’ Tribute to Charlie Kirk

50

A Collapse of Epic Proportions

51

The Balkanization of Major League Baseball

52

What is the Catcher’s Balk? Answer: It Doesn’t Exist

53

Replay: The Perfect One-Hit Game

54

The Job of an Umpire is to Remain Anonymous

55

The Little League World Series Baseball Field Needs to Be Expanded in Size

56

Microbetting is a Huge Problem in Major League Baseball

57

Blasting Caps, Potato Chips, and Shakespeare

58

In Memoriam: Stuart Mitchell Copley, January 4, 1989 – June 27, 2025

59

A Reevaluation of the Book Ball Four

60

Signs of a Good Umpire

61

Neighbors Kyle and Holly Share Their Experiences as D1 Athletes

62

Revisiting the Balk Rule

63

The One-Year Anniversary of All About Baseball

64

Mayhem at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium: How Did it Happen?

65

The Major League All-Star Game Needs to Pick the Best Players

66

A Foolproof Way to Protect Your Signs

67

The MLB Baseball Uniform is Anything but Uniform

68

The Day that Babe Ruth Should Have Retired from Baseball

69

The Mystery of Javier Baez’s Transformation

70

A Losing Bet: The Reinstatement of Pete Rose

71

You Need to Listen to “The Midnight Library of Baseball”

72

When is it Time to Call Time?

73

Is the Torpedo Bat a Dud?

74

Infield Practice

75

Who is Brad Havens?

76

Baseball is A Courteous Game

77

What Were the Pittsburgh Pirates Thinking?

78

Will the Torpedo Bat Sink Major League Pitching?

79

Backache, The Bus Seat Rule, and Baseball

80

Kirk Gibson: Hockey Player?

81

The Head-First Slide is Not a Heads-Up Play

82

“Wilson! I’m Sorry!”

83

The Rundown on Rundowns

84

The Automated Ball-Strike System is Not Perfect

85

Alex Bregman is Not Worth 40 Million Dollars a Year

86

Missed Opportunities

87

Who’s to Blame for the Walk-Up Song?

88

Immaculate Grid: The Ultimate Baseball Trivia Game

89

The Honorable Sacrifice of “Jack T. Jamison”

90

Remembering Bob Uecker

91

Why Did The Detroit Tigers Sign Javier Baez to a Six-Year Contract?

92

At What Price Victory, MLB?

93

Enhancing the Little League Baseball In-Game Experience

94

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

95

Al Kaline’s Rude Introduction to the Detroit Tigers

96

Rob Manfred’s Gone Batty

97

When Baseball Became Work

98

Baseball-Oriented Christmas Gifts

99

Baseball Games You Can Play

100

It’s Time to End Interleague Play in MLB

101

Why is Bunting so Controversial? (Updated Dec 4)

102

Ode to My Younger Brother

103

Lou Whitaker is a First-Ballot Hall of Famer

104

Pining for the Wood Bat

105

How Did They Last This Long in the Major Leagues?

106

“Miscues” and Misfortune: New York Yankees

107

The Oldest Players of Major League Baseball

108

Screwball: The Ultimate Out Pitch

109

2024 Tigers: How Did They Do It?

110

World Series Winners and Losers

111

Major League Baseball: Overbranded and Overhyped

112

The Lessons of Moneyball Are Not New

113

After Baseball: Hank Aguirre, Businessman and Humanitarian

114

Obstruction, Interference, and Confusion

115

Episode #21: Milestone

116

The 5,000-5,999 Plate Appearance MLB All-Time Team: 1960-2023

117

Baseball Match Play

118

As Told to Me: An Encounter with Ron LeFlore

119

Touching all Bases

120

A Game of Millimeters

121

The Anatomy of a Half-Inning

122

Tender Youth Arms

123

Spectator Interference: Why?

124

John McGraw, Camlio Doval, and John Hiller

125

Who is to Blame for Batting Gloves?

126

Baseball Was in Our DNA (Update)

127

The Day I Hated Baseball

128

The Perfect One-Hit Game

129

Outfield Play: Mindset over Method

130

The 1971 All-Star Game: I was there

131

5 Things Every Umpire Should Do

132

715 – The Moment I Missed, and Then Realized

133

Willie Mays: A Tribute to His Elite Base Running

134

The Strike Zone

135

Warmup – Intro to All About Baseball