Peter Willits Burnside (born July 2, 1930) is an American former professional baseball player and left-handed pitcher who appeared in 196 Major League Baseball games in 1955 and from 1957–1963 for the New York and San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators and Baltimore Orioles. The Evanston, Illinois, native attended New Trier High School in Winnetka and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1952. He was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg).\n', '

Burnside\'s pro career began in 1949 (he attended Dartmouth during his offseasons) and was interrupted by United States Army service in 1953. A stellar 1955 season in the Double-A Texas League, where he posted an 18–11 record and 2.47 earned run average for the Dallas Eagles, earned him his first big-league call-up to the New York Giants. He started two late-season games. In his first, on September 20, he issued six bases on balls and allowed seven runs (only two of them earned) in 3​2⁄3 innings against the cellar-dwelling Pittsburgh Pirates. While the Giants\' offense bailed him out—Burnside departed the game with New York leading 11–7—his early exit kept him from claiming the victory in an eventual 14–8 Giants\' triumph; that went to relief ace Hoyt Wilhelm. In his second start a week later, however, Burnside threw a complete game, seven-hit victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.\n', '

Burnside spent all of 1956 in Triple-A and then got into only 16 total games with the varsity in 1957 and 1958 (with 45 games pitched in minor league baseball). His only other victory in a Giant uniform happened April 23, 1957, when he threw a complete game, three-hit shutout to defeat the Pirates 1–0 at the Polo Grounds. The Giants sold his contract to the Detroit Tigers on October 5, 1958. Burnside then spent five full seasons (1959–1963) in the American League, setting a big-league personal best in victories (seven) with the 1960 Tigers, and throwing two more shutouts with the expansion 1961 Senators. Both of the blankings occurred in September against the Kansas City Athletics, a five-hitter on the 16th and a two-hitter on the 29th.\n', '

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