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Podcast: Reading Baseball
Episode: Reading Baseball: The integration of Chicago baseball
Description: (Pete Peterson)A new book out this spring highlights the breaking of the color line by the Chicago White Sox and Cubs in the 1950’s.In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson reviews the book that looks at the integration of baseball in Chicago.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.