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 explains why a now demolished ballpark is special enough to him to be called his happy place. -
The hot topic at the beginning of the Major League Baseball season was the emergence of torpedo bats. -
Pete Peterson explains how Derek Shelton faced an uphill battle in getting the Pirates to be contenders.
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The recent death of Pope Francis got Reading Baseball commentator Pete Peterson thinking about his visit to the U.S. nearly ten years ago. -
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.
