Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday will be celebrated on Monday. WSIU Radio's Reading Baseball commentator Pete Peterson tells us how the all-time leading scorer in SIU Men's Basketball history helped a lot of young people in the area strive for Dr. King's dream after his professional basketball career ended.

 
Reading Baseball is a series of original essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson.
A copy of this commentary will appear in Monday's edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.