HERRIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY and Gordon Pruett, HAHS Board Member, have arranged to have Richard “Pete” Peterson speak on “Major League Baseball Players from the Herrin Area: Ray Chapman, Robert Veach, Ray Fosse and Others” on Friday, September 12th at 2:00 p.m.
Richard “Pete” Peterson is Professor Emeritus of English at Southern Illinois University and, for the past ten years, the commentator for the Reading Baseball series on WSIU-FM. He is the author of Extra Innings: Writing on Baseball, Growing Up with Clemente, and Pops: The Willie Stargell Story, and the editor of The Pirates Reader and The St. Louis Baseball Reader. His baseball writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and his hometown Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (He is not to be confused with another “Pete” Peterson in Marion (husband of Yolande Peterson).