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Reading Baseball
by 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.
Episodes
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Reading Baseball: The 2026 season recap for the Pirates and the Cardinals
Pete Peterson recaps the season for both teams and how it left him excited for 2027.
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Reading Baseball: A book for the old guy and a baseball purse for Anita
Pete tells us about a recent baseball gift he received and one for his wife, Anita.
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Reading Baseball: 100 Years Ago Pete Alexander Saves the 1926 World Series
The St. Louis Cardinals’ run of a National League best 11 World Series titles started in 1926.
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Reading Baseball: 100 years ago the Cardinals win their first pennant
The St. Louis Cardinals sent St. Louis into a frenzy in 1926.
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Reading Baseball: 100 years ago Branch Rickey saved the Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals are one of the most stories franchises in Major League Baseball history with a National League record 11 World Series titles.
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Reading Baseball: Are baseball ballparks segregated?
A recently released book examines if baseball ballparks had physical barriers to segregate fan movement.
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Reading Baseball: That crazy pitch -- the 1946 All-Star Game
The game featured a memorable at-bat from hall of famer Ted Williams.
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Reading Baseball: Lou Brissie, baseball's American hero
Baseball has been around for most of the USA's 250-year existence.
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Reading Baseball: Anita the Hat meets Harry the Hat
Peterson’s wife Anita is drawing attention these days thanks to a pill-box shaped hat she’s wearing around town…so much so Pete has dubbed her Anita the Hat.
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Commentary: To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Pete Peterson remembers his visit to SIU-Carbondale 40 years ago
Sir David Attenborough is most famous for his pioneering work as a natural historian, broadcaster, and author.
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Commentary: My most memorable NFL Draft
The National Football League Draft took place in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago.
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Reading Baseball: Last place Cardinals?
So far in this young Major League Baseball season, the St. Louis Cardinals are outperforming the experts' preseason predictions.
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Reading Baseball: Is baseball getting dumber and dumber?
Pete Peterson discusses the pros and cons of the Major League Baseball's automated ball-strike system.
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Reading Baseball: Taking Anita out to the ballgame
Pete Peterson tells us about taking his wife Anita to a Saluki baseball game earlier this season and how she "stole" his hot dog.
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Reading Baseball: The day Babe Ruth died
Pete Peterson talks about a Chicago newspaper edition sent to him on the death of the legendary Babe Ruth.
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Reading Baseball: Remembering Bill Mazeroski
Pete Peterson remembers one of Pittsburgh's most beloved ballplayers.
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Reading Baseball: The most hated team in baseball
The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to add more free agents and outspend every other franchise in the sport.
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Reading Baseball: Baseball's early Christmas present
Pete Peterson thoroughly enjoyed this past season's playoff run.
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Commentary: The saddest Thanksgiving
Pete Peterson recounts what it was like for him to live through what he calls the saddest Thanksgiving.
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Reading Baseball: The 100th anniversary of the 1925 World Series
As the 2025 World Series ends, we look back at one of the craziest fall classics in history.
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Reading Baseball: A great book for St. Louis fans with the baseball blues
St. Louis baseball fans have a rich tradition to remember.
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Reading Baseball: Robert Redford, baseball's natural
Pete Peterson examines Redford's celebrated role in The Natural.
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Commentary: I almost missed the greatest play in NFL history
The NFL blackout rule used to keep fans from seeing their favorite team play home games.
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Reading Baseball: Baseball goes bananas
Pete Peterson looks at entertainment-focused baseball teams, including the Savannah Bananas of today.
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Reading Baseball: Baseball Nubability
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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Reading Baseball: This Old Man
A book entitled This Old Man is an account of what it’s like to be old.
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Reading Baseball: A new edition of one of baseball's best history books
Baseball fans love the game’s history.
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Reading Baseball: There is crying in baseball
Pete Peterson describes how being a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, especially recently, proves there is crying in baseball.
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Reading Baseball: Earl Weaver's baseball journey
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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Reading Baseball: Pete's happy place
Pete Peterson explains why a now demolished ballpark is special enough to him to be called his happy place.
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Reading Baseball: Has baseball gone batty?
The hot topic at the beginning of the Major League Baseball season was the emergence of torpedo bats.
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Reading Baseball: A sad day for Saluki baseball fans
Pete Peterson explains how Derek Shelton faced an uphill battle in getting the Pirates to be contenders.
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Reading Baseball: Was the Pope a baseball fan?
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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Reading Baseball: The 400th edition
Pete Peterson celebrates the 400th edition of Reading Baseball, which started in 2004.
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Reading Baseball: The integration of Chicago baseball
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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Reading Baseball: The 1985 I-70 World Series
A new book is out focusing on the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series.
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Reading Baseball: Itchy Jones at the bat
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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Reading Baseball: Vic Harris, baseball's winningest manager
Pete Peterson tells us about a legendary negro league manager who Pete believes was wrongly left out of the Baseball Hall of Fame again.
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Reading Baseball: The golden at bat
Baseball has found some innovative ways recently to try and make the game more appealing to fans.
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Reading Baseball: It's a Wonderful Life, but not as a Cardinals fan
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.
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Reading Baseball: Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?
Since his recent death, the debate has been reignited as to whether Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Reading Baseball: Can baseball save us from politics?
If the current political atmosphere has you wanting a distraction, commentator Pete Peterson may have just the thing.
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Reading Baseball: In praise of the White Sox
The Chicago White Sox set a record with 121 losses in 2024.
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Reading Baseball: My 1930's era baseball glove
Pete Peterson tells us the story of how became the owner of a special glove.
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Reading Baseball: The greatest living ballplayer
Pete Peterson tells us who he thinks is the greatest living baseball player following the death of Willie Mays.
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Reading Baseball: The curse of the mustache
Pete explains the why his mustache turned out to be a curse for his beloved Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Reading Baseball: What's a doubleheader?
Pete Peterson looks at how modern day baseball's day-night doubleheaders are not doubleheaders at all.
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Reading Baseball: My first, and last, mustache
Pittsburgh Pirates rookie pitcher Paul Skenes has made a big impression on fans, including our own Pete Peterson.
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Reading Baseball: Our last trip to Pittsburgh?
Pete Peterson explains why his most recent trip to Pittsburgh was extra special.
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Reading Baseball: I oughta know Milwaukee
Pete Peterson recaps Milwaukee's baseball history.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 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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