Posted on 12/01/2022 9:51:20 AM PST by grey_whiskers
Gaylord Perry, a Hall of Fame pitcher who won two Cy Young Awards over the course of his 22-year career, died Thursday at his home in South Carolina. He was 84.
Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said Perry died in Gaffney at around 5 a.m. local time of natural causes. He did not provide any more details around his death.
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Despite the spitball, one of the greats: won Cy Young awards in both leagues, and a long career.
LOL, back when I followed baseball, I liked him FOR the spitballs!
May he RIP.
RIP
He reminds me of the pitcher from Major League.
(not Charlie Sheen...the one who drinks Jobu’s rum)
that whole routine drove em crazy, didn’t it??...i was a huge fan...
a pitcher with a 22 year career?
hmmm
you think he was throwing some junk after the arm started giving out?
Wow. I’m surprised he was only 84. I watched him pitch in San Francisco when I was in little league. Rode the bus with a friend and this old guy that took every one on the team through out the season to a game. First time ever to the big city.
Tommy John pitched 25 years, and has an operation named for him
I know it is cheating, but I found the whole Spy-Vs-Spy routine between the pitcher and the officials, cameras, opposing team, and fans to be pretty funny.
I mean, after all, you KNEW the guy was known for it. Everyone was watching him. The cameras were on him. But still he managed to do his dirty deed and it drove them crazy.
It just amused me. It is like a dog that likes to steal human food. You know they do it. They know they do it. Everyone knows. Everyone watches. But still...when the time is right, the dog is in the corner wolfing down some purloined bit of human food.
I used to have a Golden Retriever who was fixated on food, and she was smart enough to know right from wrong.
But she would watch areas that she could exploit, and one of those was very young children holding food in their hands.
I watched, fascinated one day, as she stalked my very young nephew, maybe four years old, holding a ham sandwich in his hand.
He was carelessly flashing the sandwich about as he talked, and the dog, watching him like a hawk, stole silently up to his blind side where the sandwich was dangling in the air.
She didn’t just grab the sandwich and run, I think she correctly judged that a theft of that magnitude would bring immediate loss of the stolen food, and banishment from the room, if not the house.
So, she sidled up to my newphew, and like the alien in the movie “Aliens”, bared her teeth, which almost seemed to extend outward from her mouth like the alien, and genteely latched onto a small portion of the ham protruding from the bread, and smoothly extracted it, leaving my surprised and baffled nephew with a “hamless” sandwich!
I must say, I was so surprised and shocked, that the thought of chasing her down never even entered my mind!
When I think of Gaylord Perry with his spitball routine, it always reminded me of that! He just got away with it while everyone watched!
I remember the Giants trading him for Sam McDonald. One of the worse trades.
I met Harmon Killebrew and shook his hand.
I never wanted to wash my hand again..ever.
Then I met Perry.
I shook his hand.
His actions and attitude made me want to find an axe and chop my hand off
Also one of baseball’s worst hitting pitchers.
From Wikipedia: in his sophomore season of 1963, his manager Alvin Dark is said to have joked, “There would be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry would hit a home run.” There are other variants on the story, but either way, on July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career.
Since Major League was based on the Cleveland Indians when they were the 3 legged dog of the American League, the association with Perry is natural. He was one of the few bright spots during a very long run of futility for The Tribe.
I have enjoyed the movie numerous times.
He got in with the spitter , while Pete Rose is kept out. The HOF is a farce.
I bet t u at us who the author had in mind.
He looks like him, built like him, and threw junk balls like him...
i had a Doberman once, and he loved human food...once he ate a dozen bananas! Anyway, one New Years Eve, i went out and got hammered....when i got home, i decided to make these beautiful tator tots. After awhile, in my drunken haze, i sat down with a plate of these awesome tater tots. Just ready to dig in...POOF!!..NO LIGHTS!!. Apparently, someone crashed into a power pole and knocked out the power...i dont think the room was even fully dark yet when i heard this frenzied chomping...when i got a flash light, sure enough, every tater tot was gone..and that Dobe was nowhere to be found....he waited, then made his move!!..i made a hot dog and went to bed...
“300 wins is nothing to spit at.”—at his HOF induction
“They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.”—he hit one in the evening not long after Armstrong set foot on the moon
What a FUN player he was. He’ll be missed.
When I was perhaps 10-11 years old, Harmon Killebrew was one of my “sports heroes” (I was into baseball at that time)
Was Gaylord Perry a jerk, or was he snogging, spitting, wiping his nose, etc?
I have never understood how someone could be famous, depending on those who pay money to see him or her for their fame and livelihood, yet treat them with contempt and disrespect.
We see it all the time.
I am an aviation nut, and had a chance to be in close contact for about ten minutes with Chuck Yeager in a group of people. I was taken aback at how rude he was to people, and for a while I lost a great deal of respect for him. (I contrast him with another great and famous aviator, Bob Hoover, who spent about a half hour just talking with me, my brother, and a friend. It was remarkable. He was so friendly and put us at ease that we were all astonished.)
But as time went by and I dwelled on it, I realized that General Yeager did not ask for his fame. He never really wanted it, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized he apparently wasn’t cut out for that, and I came to the realization that his situation wasn’t the same thing as we see with sports figures or movie stars.
It doesn’t excuse his rudeness that I perceived, but he was an elderly man when I saw him, and I realized I was being unfair to him. I just wasn’t taking his privacy into account, which had been minimized to nothing in his long life. So I was wrong there.
But a sports figure or other celebrity treating people that way? I would spit on the ground.
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