(Provided by Pete Peterson / Ron Shelton)

In the next edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson has a unique story about when Ron Shelton met Ron Shelton after they joined the same minor league team.

As Pete explains, one of them is the father of former Saluki star and current Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton.

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