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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: Can baseball save us from politics?
Description: The box score from the first game Pete Peterson attended in person with his father in 1948.(Pete Peterson)November 5 is Election Day.If the current political atmosphere has you wanting a distraction, commentator Pete Peterson may have just the thing.In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete tries to answer the question: Can baseball save us from politics?Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, author of Growing Up With Clemente and editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.