Nick Anthony Peters (April 1, 1939 – March 23, 2015) was an American
sports writer who primarily covered
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ...
baseball games in a career that spanned 47 seasons (1961–2007).
He spent the majority of his career on the Giants beat at ''
The Oakland Tribune'' and ''
The Sacramento Bee
''The Sacramento Bee'' is a daily newspaper published in Sacramento, California, in the United States. Since its foundation in 1857, ''The Bee'' has become the largest newspaper in Sacramento, the fifth largest newspaper in California, and the 2 ...
'' and also worked for the ''
Berkeley Gazette'' and ''
San Francisco Chronicle
The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. ...
''. He was nicknamed "The Greek."
Peters attended all 50 of the Giants' home openers from 1958 to 2008 and authored five books on the team.
He was the 2009 winner of the
J. G. Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the
Baseball Writers' Association of America
The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) is a professional association for journalists writing about Major League Baseball for daily newspapers, magazines, and qualifying websites. The organization was founded in 1908 and is known fo ...
.
Peters died at his home in
Elk Grove, California
Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States. Located just south of the state capital of Sacramento, it is part of the Sacramento metropolitan area. As of the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 176,124. A 2021 C ...
on March 23, 2015, aged 75.
References
External links
Baseball Hall of Fame bio
Sportswriters from California
Writers from San Francisco
2015 deaths
1939 births
BBWAA Career Excellence Award recipients
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