Monday is the federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson looks back at how King's assassination in April 1968 impacted the start of the Major League Baseball season and how King influenced one of the game's greatest players years after his death.
Reading Baseball is a series of orignal essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, editor of the St. Louis Baseball Reader and the author of Growing Up With Clemente.
