John Phillip Peters (April 8, 1850 – January 4, 1924) was a
shortstop who played in
Major League Baseball with four clubs from through . Peters batted and threw right-handed.
Biography
He was born in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Peters reached the majors in 1874 with the
Chicago White Stockings (
NA/
NL), spending four years with them before moving to the
Milwaukee Grays (NL, 1878), again with Chicago (NL, 1879), and the
Providence Grays (NL, 1880),
Buffalo Bisons (NL, 1881) and
Pittsburgh Alleghenys (NL, 1882–1884). He was the everyday shortstop of the pennant-winning 1876 Chicago White Stockings in the very first year of the National League.
Peters
averaged
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.328 from 1876 to 1878, with a career-high .351 in the 1876 championship season to finish fourth in the National League batting title behind
Ross Barnes (.429),
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(.366) and
Cap Anson (.356). He also twice led the shortstops in
putout
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s in 1879 (280) and 1890 (277).
While in Chicago, Peters shared infield defense duties with
first basemen Cal McVey and
Albert Spalding;
2B Ross Barnes,
3B Cap Anson, and
catchers
Deacon White and
Cal McVey as well. In 1881, with Buffalo, he again played on a team that featured early stars as
Davy Force (IF),
Dan Brouthers (1B) and
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(
OF).
In an 11-season career, Peters was a .278 hitter (748-for-2695) with three
home runs and 249
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in 615
games
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, including 372
runs, 92
doubles, 12
triples
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, and 14
stolen base
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s.
He died in
St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 73.
External links
''Baseball Reference''
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Buffalo Bisons (NL) players
Chicago White Stockings players
Milwaukee Grays players
Pittsburgh Alleghenys players
Providence Grays players
Major League Baseball shortstops
19th-century baseball players
Baseball players from Louisiana
1850 births
1924 deaths
Springfield, Illinois (minor league baseball) players
Stillwater (minor league baseball) players