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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: Remembering the Asian-American Jackie Robinson
Description: May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson has the story of the first Japanese-American to play professional football, who also became known as Japanese baseball’s Jackie Robinson.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.