Pete Charton

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1942)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Pete Charton

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1942|12|21}}

|birth_place=Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.

|death_date=

|death_place=

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 19

|debutyear=1964

|debutteam=Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 30

|finalyear=1964

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–2

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=5.26

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=37

|teams=

• Boston Red Sox (1964)

}}Frank Lane "Pete" Charton (born December 21, 1942) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed, stood {{convert|6|ft|2|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|190|lb}}.

Charton was signed in 1963 by the Boston Red Sox as a free agent out of the Baylor University. He spent the entire {{baseball year|1964}} season on Boston's Major League roster to prevent him from being claimed by another team in the first-year player draft of the time. In a 25-game MLB career, Charton posted a 0–2 record with 37 strikeouts and a 5.26 ERA in 65.0 innings pitched, including five starts and 14 games finished.

After baseball, he finished college, ultimately receiving his PhD in geology from Michigan State University. He taught for a couple of years at the University of Illinois before moving on to Roane State Community College in Harriman, Tennessee, where he taught for 35 years{{Cite web|url=http://baseballhistorian.blogspot.com/2011/12/catching-up-with-pete-charton.html|title = The Baseball Historian: Catching up with Pete Charton|date = 4 December 2011}} and had an endowment scholarship named in his honor.{{Cite web|url=https://roanestate.academicworks.com/opportunities/1649|title = All Opportunities - Roane State Community College Foundation Scholarship Application}} He is also the author of the Christian devotional, "Off to College with King Solomon: A Devotional Handbook for Beginning College Students". (2012){{Cite web|url=http://www.youthworker.com/reviews-for-youth-pastors/youth-ministry-books/11678408/|title = Off to College with King Solomon|date = 26 September 2012}}