Before the leviathan of Black Friday there was a simpler time-honored tradition that ushered in the start of the holiday shopping season. In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson takes us back to the days of his youth as a department store stock boy when he missed Thanksgiving diner to help prepare for the start of the Christmas Shopping season.
Reading Baseball is a series of original essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, editor of the St Louis Baseball Reader and author of Growing Up With Clemente.
