(Brad Palmer (via the book The White Rat))

St. Louis Cardinal fans are still mourning the recent death of former manager Whitey Herzog.

In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson remembers the Hall of Famer through a review of Herzog’s book published in 1999.

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