The cover of the SIU Press reprint of Man on Spikes featuring an image of Itchy Jones(Provided by Pete Peterson)

Tributes continue for former Saluki coaching great Itchy Jones, who died on February 17.

In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson once again remembers the time Jones became a cover boy when SIU Press reprinted a critically-acclaimed baseball book.

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.