Nick Peters (1939-2015) reported on the Giants for almost half a century. He never missed a Giants’ opening home game. In 2009, he won the Baseball Writers Association of America J. G. Taylor Spink Award. He lived in Elk Grove, California. Peters passed away in March 2015.

Stuart Shea is a freelance writer specializing in sports and music. He is the author of Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. When he’s not busy discovering new music, he can be found co-running Bardball.com, the Internet’s top site for baseball poetry.