Reading Baseball

Mar 20 2025 200 ep. 4 mins 27
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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: The 1985 I-70 World Series

Mar 20 2025 4 mins  
A new book is out focusing on the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series.

Reading Baseball: Itchy Jones at the bat

Mar 06 2025 4 mins  
Pete Peterson once again remembers the time Jones became a cover boy when SIU Press reprinted a critically-acclaimed baseball book.

Reading Baseball: Vic Harris, baseball's winningest manager

Feb 20 2025 4 mins  
Pete Peterson tells us about a legendary negro league manager who Pete believes was wrongly left out of the Baseball Hall of Fame again.

Reading Baseball: The golden at bat

Jan 30 2025 4 mins  
Baseball has found some innovative ways recently to try and make the game more appealing to fans.

Reading Baseball: It's a Wonderful Life, but not as a Cardinals fan

Dec 12 2024 4 mins  
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.

Reading Baseball: Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?

Nov 14 2024 5 mins  
Since his recent death, the debate has been reignited as to whether Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Reading Baseball: Can baseball save us from politics?

Oct 31 2024 4 mins  
If the current political atmosphere has you wanting a distraction, commentator Pete Peterson may have just the thing.

Reading Baseball: In praise of the White Sox

Oct 17 2024 5 mins  
The Chicago White Sox set a record with 121 losses in 2024.

Reading Baseball: My 1930's era baseball glove

Oct 03 2024 5 mins  
Pete Peterson tells us the story of how became the owner of a special glove.

Reading Baseball: The greatest living ballplayer

Sep 19 2024 4 mins  
Pete Peterson tells us who he thinks is the greatest living baseball player following the death of Willie Mays.