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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: First All-Star Game (Bicentennial)
Description: July 6 is the 85th anniversary of the very first Major League Baseball All-Star Game.In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson explains how a Chicago man thought of the idea as a way to help revive a struggling sport.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.