194 episodes

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.

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.

    Reading Baseball: Baseball's farewell to arms

    Reading Baseball: Baseball's farewell to arms

    Pete Peterson examines the rash of injuries to pitchers already this MLB season.

    • 5 min
    Reading Baseball: Remembering Whitey Herzog

    Reading Baseball: Remembering Whitey Herzog

    Herzog died recently at the age of 92.

    • 5 min
    Reading Baseball: Baseball's first great Jewish star

    Reading Baseball: Baseball's first great Jewish star

    Pete Peterson examines Hank Greenberg’s Hall of Fame career.

    • 4 min
    Reading Baseball: An eclipse and baseball

    Reading Baseball: An eclipse and baseball

    Pete Peterson, thanks to Mark Twain, finds a connection between baseball and eclipses.

    • 4 min
    Reading Baseball: Paul Giamatti's Father, Bart Giamatti

    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.

    • 4 min
    Reading Baseball: Jim Leyland in, Barry Bonds out

    Reading Baseball: Jim Leyland in, Barry Bonds out

    The newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame include longtime manager Jim Leyland.

    • 4 min

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