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After four brief call-ups with the White Sox, Peters was AL Rookie of the Year in 1963 with a 19-8 mark and league-leading 2.33 ERA. He followed with a 20-8 season in 1964, but arm miseries struck. He rebounded with a second ERA title in 1966 (1.98) and 16 wins in 1967 and again in 1970 after he'd been dealt to the Red Sox.

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A good-hitting pitcher (.222 with 19 homers), he was often used as a pinch hitter. On May 26, 1968, manager Eddie Stanky batted him sixth in the order, ahead of Luis Aparicio, Duane Josephson, and Tim Cullen. (RL)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » November 27, 1963: Chicago P Gary Peters edges teammate 3B Pete Ward and Minnesota OF Jimmie Hall for American League rookie honors. » May 30, 1965: Mickey Mantle's 4th inning homer off Gary Peters opens the scoring for New York, and they win, 3–2 over host Chicago. » June 5, 1965: At Yankee Stadium, Mel Stottlemyre goes 10 innings to win 4–3 over the White Sox. Stottlemyre also clouts a 4th inning homer, off Gary Peters, for the first Yankee score in 24 innings. Mickey Mantle adds a homer in the 6th off Peters, and Elston Howard, recovering from elbow surgery a month ago, wins the game with a single in the 10th. » April 28, 1966: Cleveland ties the modern major-league record with its 10th straight win since Opening Day. Sonny Siebert defeats the Angels 2–1. Cleveland will lose tomorrow to the White Sox's Gary Peters, 4-1. » July 30, 1966: Chicago's Gary Peters shuts down the Yankees, 6–0, facing just 29 batters. The efficient Peters uses just 75 pitches. » September 9, 1967: Sox starter Gary Peters takes a 3–0 lead into the 9th inning, but a 7-run 9th keeps Detroit tied for first place with the Twins with a 7–3 win at Chicago. Chicago is now in 4th place, two games in back, with the Red Sox in 3rd place just a half-game behind. » September 27, 1967: In afternoon games, Cleveland tops Boston 6–0, while the Twins drop a 5–1 decision to California. In their last games in Kansas City before moving to Oakland, the 10th place A's sweep a doubleheader from Chicago, beating the American League's ERA leaders Gary Peters and Joe Horlen. Peters loses the opener 5–2, and Horlen the nitecap 4–0, to rookie Catfish Hunter. Jim Gosger leads the way for KC by going 5-for-8 in the doubleheader. The two losses on this "Black Wednesday" drops Chicago to 4th place with only a hope of a tie for the pennant. » December 13, 1969: The Red Sox send 1B Syd O'Brien and pitcher Billy Farmer and cash to the White Sox for P Gary Peters and C Don Pavletich. Boston also picks up 3B Tom Matchick from the Tigers for Dalton Jones. Farmer will announce his retirement and in March the White Sox will replace him with P Jerry Jarneski. » April 7, 1970: At Yankee Stadium, Mel Stottlemyre makes his 4th straight Opening Day start, joining Lefty Gomez and Jack Chesbro as the only Yankee hurlers to do so. The Red Sox counter with newly acquired Gary Peters, who allowed no earned runs in 32 spring training innings. Boston jumps out to a 4–0 lead in five innings, but the Yanks score three in the 6th to chase Peters. But that's all the scoring as Boston wins, 4–3. » September 27, 1970: The Red Sox smash four homers to reach a club-record 201 homers in handing the Senators their 10th straight loss, 10–1. Winning pitcher Gary Peters hits a 3-run homer, Conigliaro, and George Scott with two homers and five RBIs are the leaders. The previous Sox high for homers was 197 last season.