Reading Baseball is a WSIU Radio original series of baseball essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, editor of the St. Louis Baseball Reader and author of Growing Up With Clemente and the upcoming Pops: The Willie Stargell Story.
Reading Baseball: Why I Won't Buy the Yogi Berra Stamp
5 mins; July 16, 2021
Reading Baseball: Willie Mays at 90
5 mins; July 03, 2021
Reading Baseball: Confessions of a Sore Loser
5 mins; June 18, 2021
Reading Baseball: Remembering Reuben Berman
4 mins; June 04, 2021
Reading Baseball: Ernest Hemingway at the Bat
5 mins; May 21, 2021
Reading Baseball: Remembering the Asian-American Jackie Robinson
5 mins; May 07, 2021
Reading Baseball: Remembering My First Baseball Game
5 mins; April 23, 2021
Reading Baseball: Deja Vu for Former Saluki Derek Shelton
5 mins; April 09, 2021
Reading Baseball: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
5 mins; March 26, 2021
Reading Baseball: Spring Training in Cairo and Cape Girardeau
5 mins; March 12, 2021
Reading Baseball: The Negro League's Final Curtain
5 mins; February 05, 2021
Reading Baseball: Many Former Players Lost in 2020
5 mins; January 15, 2021
Reading Baseball: Celebrating 50 Years of PBS
5 mins; December 18, 2020
Reading Baseball: Native American Heritage
5 mins; November 13, 2020
Reading Baseball: 2020 Season
5 mins; October 30, 2020
Reading Baseball: Why I Loved Hating Bob Gibson
5 mins; October 23, 2020
Reading Baseball: A Tip of the Cap to the Negro Leagues
5 mins; October 16, 2020
Reading Baseball: Remembering Ila Borders
5 mins; September 25, 2020
Reading Baseball: Baseball Hall of Fame and the 9/11 Anniversary
5 mins; September 11, 2020
Reading Baseball: Renaming the J.G. Taylor Spink Award
5 mins; September 04, 2020
Commentary: Teachers Have Always Been Essential
5 mins; August 28, 2020
Reading Baseball: 100th Anniversary of Baseball's Greatest Tragedy
5 mins; August 14, 2020
Washington Redskins: What's So Traditional About a Team Name?
5 mins; July 31, 2020
Reading Baseball: Antiques Roadshow
5 mins; July 24, 2020
Commentary: The Spanish Flu Pandemic's Impact on American Sports
5 mins; July 17, 2020
Reading Baseball: Be A Hero, Wear A Mask
5 mins; July 03, 2020
Reading Baseball: Cheating and Stealing in Baseball
5 mins; June 26, 2020
Reading Baseball: What's A Saluki: Ask the New Pirate's Manager
5 mins; January 17, 2020
Reading Baseball: Mr. 300
5 mins; December 20, 2019
Reading Baseball: Baseball Thanksgiving Feast
5 mins; November 22, 2019
Reading Baseball: Baseball Thanksgiving Feast
5 mins; November 22, 2019
Reading Baseball: World Series Controversies
4 mins; November 08, 2019
Reading Baseball: Baseball and Halloween
5 mins; October 25, 2019
Reading Baseball: Baseball Breaks Your Heart
5 mins; October 11, 2019
Reading Baseball: Hispanic Heritage Month
5 mins; September 27, 2019
Reading Baseball: Pierogi Power
5 mins; September 13, 2019
Reading Baseball: Baseball and Alzheimer's Disease
5 mins; August 30, 2019
Reading Baseball: Pittsburgh's Missing H
4 mins; August 16, 2019
Reading Baseball: The Day Jim Bouton Spoke at John A. Logan
5 mins; August 02, 2019
Reading Baseball: Addy, the Pirate Princess
4 mins; July 19, 2019
Reading Baseball: The Myths of Eight Men Out
5 mins; July 05, 2019
Reading Baseball: Requiem for Pete Peterson
5 mins; June 07, 2019
Pete Peterson Prepares to Run Final Marathon
5 mins; April 26, 2019
Reading Baseball: Money and Spaghetti
4 mins; April 12, 2019
Reading Baseball: Lost Ballparks
5 mins; March 29, 2019
Reading Baseball: Babe Ruth Books
5 mins; March 15, 2019
Reading Baseball: Pete Peterson's 50th Anniversary
5 mins; January 25, 2019
Reading Baseball: Collection of Baseball Ties
4 mins; December 14, 2018
Reading Baseball: World Series vs. Super Bowl
5 mins; October 26, 2018
Reading Baseball: Red Schoendienst
5 mins; October 12, 2018
Reading Baseball: Philip Roth and Donald Hall
5 mins; September 28, 2018
Reading Baseball: Moon Shots
5 mins; September 14, 2018
Reading Baseball: Anita Does the Wave
3 mins; August 31, 2018
Reading Baseball: Bicentennial Baseball Writers
4 mins; July 20, 2018
Reading Baseball: First All-Star Game (Bicentennial)
5 mins; July 06, 2018
Reading Baseball: Meghan Markle's Baseball Playing Great Great-Uncle
4 mins; June 22, 2018
Reading Baseball: The Great American Read
4 mins; June 08, 2018
Reading Baseball: Danny Boy
5 mins; May 25, 2018
Pete Peterson Prepares For His 9th Pittsburgh Marathon
4 mins; April 27, 2018
Reading Baseball: Bicentennial
5 mins; April 13, 2018
Reading Baseball: The Stratton Story
5 mins; March 30, 2018
Reading Baseball: SIU Press
4 mins; October 13, 2017
Reading Baseball: Willie Stargell and The Vietnam War
5 mins; September 22, 2017
Reading Baseball: Little League Classic
3 mins; September 08, 2017
Pete Peterson: Last Marathon?
3 mins; August 25, 2017
Reading Baseball: Baseball and an Eclipse
4 mins; August 15, 2017
Reading Baseball: Frank DeFord
4 mins; July 28, 2017
Reading Baseball: Lifesaving Umpire
3 mins; July 14, 2017
Reading Baseball: World War I
4 mins; June 30, 2017
Reading Baseball: Father's Day
3 mins; June 16, 2017
Reading Baseball: Baseball Goes to the Opera
5 mins; June 02, 2017
Reading Baseball: St. Louis' Best Pitchers
3 mins; May 19, 2017
Reading Baseball: The Slide
5 mins; April 28, 2017
Reading Baseball: Softball Could Help Speed Up Baseball
4 mins; April 14, 2017
Reading Baseball: Claire Smith
4 mins; March 10, 2017
Reading Baseball: 250th Edition
3 mins; January 27, 2017
Reading Baseball: Gifts NOT To Give
3 mins; December 09, 2016
Reading Baseball: Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture
4 mins; November 18, 2016
Reading Baseball: 1st World Series
4 mins; September 23, 2016
Reading Baseball: Scars of Yesteryear
3 mins; August 12, 2016
Reading Baseball: Jackie Robinson Hater
4 mins; July 29, 2016
Reading Baseball: 1945 World Series
4 mins; July 15, 2016
Pete Peterson: My Life As A Hockey Fan
4 mins; July 01, 2016
Reading Baseball: Muhammad Ali and Roberto Clemente's Impact
4 mins; June 17, 2016
Re-running the Pittsburgh Marathon with Pete Peterson
