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Reading Baseball

WSIU Public Radio

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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4:55

Reading Baseball: Baseball's early Christmas present

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2025/12/12

Pete Peterson thoroughly enjoyed this past season's playoff run.

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5:09

Commentary: The saddest Thanksgiving

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2025/11/21

Pete Peterson recounts what it was like for him to live through what he calls the saddest Thanksgiving.

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4:53

Reading Baseball: The 100th anniversary of the 1925...

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2025/10/30

As the 2025 World Series ends, we look back at one of the craziest fall classics in history.

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4:59

Reading Baseball: A great book for St. Louis fans...

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2025/10/17

St. Louis baseball fans have a rich tradition to remember.

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4:54

Reading Baseball: Robert Redford, baseball's natural

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2025/10/02

Pete Peterson examines Redford's celebrated role in The Natural.

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4:50

Commentary: I almost missed the greatest play in NFL...

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2025/09/19

The NFL blackout rule used to keep fans from seeing their favorite team play home games.

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5:01

Reading Baseball: Baseball goes bananas

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2025/09/04

Pete Peterson looks at entertainment-focused baseball teams, including the Savannah Bananas of today.

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4:58

Reading Baseball: Baseball Nubability

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2025/08/21

Pete Peterson pays homage to this summer’s NubAbility Camp in Du Quoin by looking at some of baseball’s limb-different players over the years.

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5:04

Reading Baseball: This Old Man

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2025/08/08

A book entitled This Old Man is an account of what it’s like to be old.

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5:03

Reading Baseball: A new edition of one of baseball's...

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2025/07/24

Baseball fans love the game’s history.

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4:55

Reading Baseball: There is crying in baseball

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2025/07/11

Pete Peterson describes how being a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, especially recently, proves there is crying in baseball.

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5:02

Reading Baseball: Earl Weaver's baseball journey

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2025/06/27

Pete Peterson takes a look at a new book out about Earl Weaver that highlights his roots to St. Louis and the Cardinals.

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4:59

Reading Baseball: Pete's happy place

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2025/06/13

Pete Peterson explains why a now demolished ballpark is special enough to him to be called his happy place.

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5:02

Reading Baseball: Has baseball gone batty?

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2025/05/30

The hot topic at the beginning of the Major League Baseball season was the emergence of torpedo bats.

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4:55

Reading Baseball: A sad day for Saluki baseball fans

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2025/05/15

Pete Peterson explains how Derek Shelton faced an uphill battle in getting the Pirates to be contenders.

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4:59

Reading Baseball: Was the Pope a baseball fan?

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2025/05/01

The recent death of Pope Francis got Reading Baseball commentator Pete Peterson thinking about his visit to the U.S. nearly ten years ago.

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5:00

Reading Baseball: The 400th edition

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2025/04/18

Pete Peterson celebrates the 400th edition of Reading Baseball, which started in 2004.

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4:59

Reading Baseball: The integration of Chicago baseball

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2025/04/04

A new book out this spring highlights the breaking of the color barrier by the Chicago White Sox and Cubs in the 1950’s.

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4:54

Reading Baseball: The 1985 I-70 World Series

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2025/03/21

A new book is out focusing on the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series.

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4:54

Reading Baseball: Itchy Jones at the bat

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2025/03/07

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

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