Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry, spitball master, dies at 88.

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GAFFNEY, S.C. -- Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball, died Thursday. He was 88.
Perry died at his home in Gaffney at about 5 a.m. Thursday of natural causes, Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said. He did not provide additional details.
Perry pitched for eight major league teams from 1962 until 1983. He won the Cy Young with Cleveland in 1972 and with San Diego in 1978 just after turning 40.
Perry was a five-time All-Star who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991.
He had a career record of 314-255, finished with 3,554 strikeouts and used a pitching style where he doctored baseballs or made batters believe he was doctoring them. His 1974 autobiography was titled "Me and the Spitter."
After his pro baseball career ended, Perry founded the baseball program at Limestone College in Gaffney and was its coach for the first three years.

 

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Gaylord Perry, famed spitball artist and baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 84

So long to the great spitball artist. Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, who won 314 games in the majors while confounding and infuriating opposing batters, managers and umpires constantly accus…

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I know this is in poor taste but how much did your parents have to hate you to name you Gaylord? Poor guy probably developed his pitching arm punching kids in the face growing up

 

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I know this is in poor taste but how much did your parents have to hate you to name you Gaylord? Poor guy probably developed his pitching arm punching kids in the face growing up

I think it was a thing back in the day

Have to take into consideration ppl didn't think the way we do now

The U.S. is a horrible place these days


I posted this before, but in other countries you can dress the way you want and listen to the kind of music you want and nobody frowns on you for critics you

Here now if kids aren't dressing a certain way, and listening to a certain type of music, they are made fun of

 

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I'm going to have to pick up a copy & read it ?