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During the week of the 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Reading Baseball commentator Pete Peterson looks back 80 years to the 1946 All-Star game, which featured a unique, memorable moment between a hall of fame hitter and a strange pitch.

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.