A former English professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is hitting a home run as a novelist.

In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson tells us about Kent Haruf's latest literary work and the time they used to share on the softball fields of Carbondale.

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