If you'd like your summer reading list to include books about baseball, you may be in luck.
In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson tells us about one work in particular involving a longtime major leaguer who has an unusual connection to the SIU baseball Salukis.
 

Reading Baseball is a series of original essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, the author of Pops: The Willie Stargell Story and Growing Up With Clemente.