Roger Angell delivers his Hall of Fame induction speech at the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014 as seen in the book This Old Man.(Pete Peterson (provided))

A book entitled This Old Man is an account of what it’s like to be old.

In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson says it’s a book he can relate to as an 86-year-old man.

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.