Reading Baseball
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Reading Baseball is a WSIU Radio original series of baseball essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, editor of the St. Louis Baseball Reader and author of Growing Up With Clemente and the upcoming Pops: The Willie Stargell Story.
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Pete Peterson celebrates the 400th edition of Reading Baseball, which started in 2004. -
A new book out this spring highlights the breaking of the color barrier by the Chicago White Sox and Cubs in the 1950’s. -
A new book is out focusing on the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series. -
Pete Peterson once again remembers the time Jones became a cover boy when SIU Press reprinted a critically-acclaimed baseball book. -
Pete Peterson tells us about a legendary negro league manager who Pete believes was wrongly left out of the Baseball Hall of Fame again. -
Baseball has found some innovative ways recently to try and make the game more appealing to fans.
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Pete explains how his wife Anita’s disgust with her hometown Pirates led her to become a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, just for a fleeting moment. -
Since his recent death, the debate has been reignited as to whether Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. -
If the current political atmosphere has you wanting a distraction, commentator Pete Peterson may have just the thing. -
The Chicago White Sox set a record with 121 losses in 2024.
