Reading Baseball: 100 Years Ago, St. Louis became a baseball town

St. Louis is considered a terrific baseball town.

In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson tells us that wasn’t the case at the turn of the 20^th century, but the tide turned 100 years ago.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, the author of Growing Up With Clemente and editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.