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Reading Baseball: What's a doubleheader?

Fans mob Bob Skinner after his walk-off homer against Cincinnati on Easter Sunday 1960. Among the fans, Pete Peterson, in the dark shirt with his hand on another fan's back.
Pete Peterson
Fans mob Bob Skinner after his walk-off homer against Cincinnati on Easter Sunday 1960. Among the fans, Pete Peterson, in the dark shirt with his hand on another fan's back.

Baseball doubleheaders were a part of the Major League Baseball landscape for decades, but now they’re almost non-existent, barring rainouts.

In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson asks the question, what is a doubleheader?

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, author of Growing Up With Clemente and editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.

Richard "Pete" Peterson is the creative force behind WSIU Radio's Reading Baseball Series. Pete's original essays and commentaries are a regular staple for any fan of the game.
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