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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: The golden at bat
Description: St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado swings at a pitch in a game at Busch Stadium.(Kirk Thornton/Unsplash / UnSplash)Baseball has found some innovative ways recently to try and make the game more appealing to fans.In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson takes a look at the most recent proposal and why this gimmick was put on the shelf.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 T...