Tyler Kepner, Baseball Writer for The Athletic and Byron Chism, Barbecue Hall of Fame Member and Creator of Bad Byron's Butt Rub

Tyler Kepner, Baseball Writer for The Athletic and Byron Chism, Barbecue Hall of Fame Member and Creator of Bad Byron's Butt Rub
Tyler Kepner is a senior writer for The Athletic covering Major League Baseball.  He previously worked for The New York Times, first covering the Mets, then the Yankees, and finally serving as national baseball columnist.  He has covered the Angels for the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and began his career with a homemade baseball magazine in his home town Philadelphia in the early 1990s. Tyler is the author of the best-selling, K: A History of Baseball In Ten Pitches and The Grandest Stage: A History of The World Series.  We learn of a very special talent Tyler possesses and there is a lot of great talk about baseball's hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Byron Chism graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1996 and created his infamous Butt Rub product in 1997.  To help market his creation, Byron began competing in BBQ competitions accross the country.  With his numerous competition awards, television exposure, product awards, and internet marketing, Butt Rub has become a household name and international brand.  Byron now does most of his cooking at the Butt Ranch known as the BBQ Theme Park in Mulberry, Tennessee.  Byron has a full-length YouTube documentary, "BBQ Dreams-The Butt Rub Story" which chronicles his journey from obscurity to major success.  For more information on Byron Chism and his company go to https://buttrub.com/
We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.
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