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Reading Baseball: The 2026 season recap for the Pirates and the Cardinals

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Reading Baseball: A book for the old guy and a baseball purse for Anita

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Reading Baseball: 100 Years Ago Pete Alexander Saves the 1926 World Series

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Reading Baseball: 100 years ago the Cardinals win their first pennant

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Reading Baseball: 100 years ago Branch Rickey saved the Cardinals

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Reading Baseball: Are baseball ballparks segregated?

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Reading Baseball: That crazy pitch -- the 1946 All-Star Game

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Reading Baseball: Lou Brissie, baseball's American hero

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Reading Baseball: Anita the Hat meets Harry 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

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Commentary: My most memorable NFL Draft

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Reading Baseball: Last place Cardinals?

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Reading Baseball: Is baseball getting dumber and dumber?

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Reading Baseball: Taking Anita out to the ballgame

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Reading Baseball: The day Babe Ruth died

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Reading Baseball: Remembering Bill Mazeroski

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Reading Baseball: The most hated team in baseball

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Reading Baseball: Baseball's early Christmas present

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Commentary: The saddest Thanksgiving

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Reading Baseball: The 100th anniversary of the 1925 World Series

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Reading Baseball: A great book for St. Louis fans with the baseball blues

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Reading Baseball: Robert Redford, baseball's natural

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Commentary: I almost missed the greatest play in NFL history

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Reading Baseball: Baseball goes bananas

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Reading Baseball: Baseball Nubability

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Reading Baseball: This Old Man

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Reading Baseball: A new edition of one of baseball's best history books

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Reading Baseball: There is crying in baseball

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Reading Baseball: Earl Weaver's baseball journey

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Reading Baseball: Pete's happy place

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Reading Baseball: Has baseball gone batty?

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Reading Baseball: A sad day for Saluki baseball fans

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Reading Baseball: Was the Pope a baseball fan?

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Reading Baseball: The 400th edition

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Reading Baseball: The integration of Chicago baseball

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Reading Baseball: The 1985 I-70 World Series

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Reading Baseball: Itchy Jones at the bat

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Reading Baseball: Vic Harris, baseball's winningest manager

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Reading Baseball: The golden at bat

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

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

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Reading Baseball: Can baseball save us from politics?

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Reading Baseball: In praise of the White Sox

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Reading Baseball: My 1930's era baseball glove

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Reading Baseball: The greatest living ballplayer

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Reading Baseball: The curse of the mustache

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Reading Baseball: What's a doubleheader?

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Reading Baseball: My first, and last, mustache

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Reading Baseball: Our last trip to Pittsburgh?

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Reading Baseball: I oughta know Milwaukee

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Reading Baseball: Remembering the Say Hey Kid

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Commentary: Deja vu all over again: Another 5K

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Reading Baseball: Baseball's farewell to arms

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Reading Baseball: Remembering Whitey Herzog

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Reading Baseball: Baseball's first great Jewish star

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Reading Baseball: An eclipse and baseball

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Reading Baseball: Paul Giamatti's Father, Bart Giamatti

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Reading Baseball: Jim Leyland in, Barry Bonds out

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Reading Baseball: The American League's Jackie Robinson

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Commentary: Basketball at 80

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Reading Baseball: Meeting Anita

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Reading Baseball: Why We Love Baseball

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Reading Baseball: Remembering Dick Groat

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Reading Baseball: A letter to Cardinal fans

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Reading Baseball: My baseball second childhood

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Reading Baseball: Back to Busch Stadium

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Reading Baseball: Mark McGwire's statue

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Reading Baseball: The worst sports fans

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Commentary: Retired educator Pete Peterson on the teacher shortage

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Commentary: A tale from the gas station

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Reading Baseball: All those home runs -- it's climate change

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Reading Baseball: The superstitious baseball fan

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Reading Baseball: The pitch clock and beer sales

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Commentary: Out of Left Field

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Reading Baseball: A Baseball Fairy Tale

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Reading Baseball: Take me out to a Cardinals game

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Reading Baseball: Baseball on the clock

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Reading Baseball: Take me out to opening day

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Reading Baseball: My Baseball March Madness

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Banning Roberto Clemente

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Commentary: McKees Rocks' Damar Hamlin

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Reading Baseball: Home Runs in January

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50 years ago: A sports triumph and a tragedy

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Baseball and Jim Thorpe

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Reading Baseball: A Great Baseball Story, Almost

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To Run or Not to Run

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Reading Baseball: Kill the umpire?

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Reading Baseball: Is baseball or football America's game?

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Reading Baseball: When Ron Shelton met Ron Shelton

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Reading Baseball: 100 Years Ago, St. Louis became a baseball town

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Goodbye Heinz Field, Hello Acrisure Stadium

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Reading Baseball: Bob Gibson's Angell

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Reading Baseball: Love of the Game

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Reading Baseball: Remembering Cardinals Rookie of the Year Bill Virdon

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On the road again

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Reading Baseball: When Itchy became a cover boy

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Reading Baseball: In the wake of Jackie Robinson

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Reading Baseball: Angels in the Outfield

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Reading Baseball: The end of baseball's longest controversy

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Reading Baseball: Pirates hire another former Saluki