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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: My baseball second childhood
Description: A youthful Pete Peterson in a baseball uniform.(Pete Peterson (provided))A rare season in which the St. Louis Cardinals finished in last place in their division has Reading Baseball commentator Pete Peterson remembering his childhood when the Pittsburgh Pirates often battled another rival for the basement.Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, author of Growing Up With Clemente and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.