Charles Lindbergh shakes hands with Grover Cleveland Alexander, with player-manager Bob O'Farrell to Alexander's immediate right.(St. Louis Baseball Reader edited by Pete Peterson)

The St. Louis Cardinals suffered through a rare losing season in 2025.

But, in his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson has a great book for St. Louis baseball fans with the baseball blues.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, co-author with his son, Stephen, of The Slide: Leyland, Bonds and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.