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Reading Baseball WSIU Public Radio
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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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Reading Baseball: Remembering Whitey Herzog
Herzog died recently at the age of 92.
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Reading Baseball: Baseball's first great Jewish star
Pete Peterson examines Hank Greenberg’s Hall of Fame career.
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Reading Baseball: An eclipse and baseball
Pete Peterson, thanks to Mark Twain, finds a connection between baseball and eclipses.
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Reading Baseball: Paul Giamatti's Father, Bart Giamatti
Pete Peterson recently learned Paul Giamatti’s father is the former commissioner of baseball who banished Pete Rose from the game.
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Reading Baseball: Jim Leyland in, Barry Bonds out
The newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame include longtime manager Jim Leyland.
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Reading Baseball: The American League's Jackie Robinson
WSIU contributor Pete Peterson brings us his annual piece in honor of Black History Month.