Reading Baseball: An eclipse and baseball
Reading Baseball
English - April 04, 2024 23:03 - 4 minutes - 6.7 MBBaseball Sports Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Reading Baseball: Paul Giamatti's Father, Bart Giamatti
Pete Peterson, thanks to Mark Twain, finds a connection between baseball and eclipses.
The solar eclipse as seen from Carbondale, Il on August 21st 2017.(Brian Sevald / Getty Images)
With the total solar eclipse coming up on Monday, April 8, we thought we would revisit Pete Peterson’s Reading Baseball segment from just before the 2017 eclipse where Pete looks at a novel that includes a story of an eclipse and America's favorite pastime.
Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, author of Growing Up With Clemente and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.