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Nick Peters, is a former baseball writer, who mostly covered San Francisco Giants games in his career, one 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 and also worked for the Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Chronicle.
Peters, who retired in 2008, had attended all 50 of the Giants' home openers and authored five books on the team.
He was elected the 2009 winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America, for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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