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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: Baseball and Halloween
Description: The World Series is underway. If the best of seven series goes the distance, it will end the day before Halloween.In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson has a fun look at some of the scariest player and team nicknames in baseball history.Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, co-author with his son, Stephen, of The Slide: Leyland, Bonds and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.