New Book Remembers Charlie Peete, A Highly Touted Prospect For The St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis On The Air podcast

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New book remembers Charlie Peete, a highly touted prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals

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Charlie Peete was a highly-touted prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals who played 23 games with the big league club in 1956. He was expected to compete heavily for the starting center field job the next season, but he didn’t get that chance because he, his wife and three young children died in a plane crash. Had Peete lived, he likely would have become the first Black position player in franchise history to earn a permanent starting job. Journalist and St. Louis native Danny Spewak details Peete’s life in the new book, “Cardinal Dreams: The Legacy of Charlie Peete and a Life Cut Short.”

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New book remembers Charlie Peete, a highly touted prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals

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Charlie Peete was a highly-touted prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals who played 23 games with the big league club in 1956. He was expected to compete heavily for the starting center field job the next season, but he didn’t get that chance because he, his wife and three young children died in a plane crash. Had Peete lived, he likely would have become the first Black position player in franchise history to earn a permanent starting job. Journalist and St. Louis native Danny Spewak details Peete’s life in the new book, “Cardinal Dreams: The Legacy of Charlie Peete and a Life Cut Short.”

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