Anita Peterson sports the hat drawing so much attention these days.(Brad Palmer)

Reading Baseball commentator Pete Peterson’s wife Anita is drawing attention these days thanks to a pill-box shaped hat she’s wearing around town…so much so Pete has dubbed her Anita the Hat.

In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete tells us about a former Major League Baseball pitcher and war hero whose nickname was “The Hat.”

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