William Stitt Peters (May 1867 – April 2, 1933) was an American

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

, player, manager, and owner who played in predecessor teams to the

Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

. Peters played

first base A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ...

and managed the

Chicago Unions The Chicago Unions were a professional, black baseball team that played in the late 19th century, prior to the formation of the Negro leagues. Founding Organized as the Unions in 1887, the club was led by Abe Jones (1887–1889) and by W.S. ...

from 1887 to 1900. After owner

Frank Leland Frank C. Leland (1869 – November 14, 1914) was an American baseball player, field manager and club owner in the Negro leagues. Early life and career beginnings Leland was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, ...

moved many of the team's players to the

Chicago Union Giants The Leland Giants, originally the Chicago Union Giants, were a Negro league baseball team that competed independently during the first decade of the 20th century. The team was formed via a merge of the Chicago Unions and the Chicago Columbia Gian ...

, Peters formed his owned team, the Peters Union Giants. He ran the club until 1923. In 1917, he is listed to have attended the annual Chicago Baseball League meeting with fellow team managers Jimmy Keown and Louis Gertenrich."Chicago Baseball League Meeting Notes" The Day Book, Late Edition, Chicago, IL, Monday, February 26, 1917, Page 11, Columns 1 and 2
/ref> Peters was the father of fellow Negro leaguer Frank Peters.

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