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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: Jim Leyland in, Barry Bonds out
Description: (Brad Palmer)The newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame include longtime manager Jim Leyland, who may be most famous for a confrontation in spring training with home run king Barry Bonds.In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson examines the often-rocky relationship between Leyland and Bonds.Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, the 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.