SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Nick Peters, a former Spink Award winner who covered the San Francisco Giants for 47 years and loved to mentor young writers, has died. He was 75.
Both the Giants and Peters’ former employer, the Sacramento Bee, announced that he died Monday at his Northern California home after a long illness.
From Hall of Famers Willie Mays to Willie McCovey and Orlando Cepeda, to more modern stars such as Barry Bonds and Tim Lincecum, Peters was a staple at Seals Stadium, Candlestick Park and AT&T Park.
Peters – nicknamed ”The Greek” – received the Hall of Fame’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 2008 for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. He became a full-time, traveling baseball writer in 1979 for the Oakland Tribune.
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