Gaylord Jackson Perry was born on September 15,1938 and is an American former professional baseball player.
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43 Facts About Gaylord Perry
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Gaylord Perry played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for eight different teams from 1962 to 1983.
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Gaylord Perry was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his third year of eligibility in 1991.
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Gaylord Perry is distinguished, along with his brother Jim Perry, for being part of the second-winningest brother combination in baseball history—second only to the knuckleball-throwing brothers Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro.
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Gaylord Perry was born in Williamston, North Carolina, and named after a close friend of his father's, who had died while having his teeth pulled.
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Gaylord Perry assisted his father with farming on their family's land in this area.
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Jim and Gaylord Perry both began playing baseball with their father during their lunch break on the farm as youths, and later all three would play on the same local semi-professional team.
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Gaylord Perry attended Williamston High School, where he played football, basketball and baseball.
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Gaylord Perry was All-State as an offensive and defensive end as a sophomore and junior, before giving up football.
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Gaylord Perry would turn down dozens of college basketball scholarship offers.
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In baseball, Gaylord Perry initially was a third baseman as a freshman, and Jim was the pitcher for Williamston.
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In 1955 Williamston High won the North Carolina Class A state tournament, as the Gaylord Perry brothers threw back-to-back shutouts to sweep the best-of-three finals.
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Gaylord Perry had a reputation throughout his career for doctoring baseballs, and was inspected on the mound by umpires and monitored closely by opposing teams.
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Gaylord Perry used his reputation to psyche out the hitters as well.
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Gaylord Perry played semi-professionally in Alpine, Texas at Kokernot Field in the early 1950s for the Alpine Cowboys.
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Gaylord Perry was signed by the San Francisco Giants on June 3,1958, for $90,000 per year, which was a big contract at the time.
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Gaylord Perry remained with the team as they became the Rio Grande Valley Giants in 1960, and an improved ERA of 2.
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Gaylord Perry had a brief call-up to the Major Leagues in 1962, making his debut on April 14 against the Cincinnati Reds.
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In 1969, Gaylord Perry led the league in innings pitched, but the Giants finished second in the pennant race for the fifth straight season.
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Gaylord Perry took over as the Giants' ace in 1970, and led the league both in wins and innings pitched.
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In what would be his only two postseason appearances, Gaylord Perry won one game and lost the other against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Publicly, Gaylord Perry insisted that the pitch was a "hard slider".
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Sudyk said that Gaylord Perry would have to be willing to discuss the rumors that he threw a spitball, and Gaylord Perry agreed.
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Gaylord Perry showed Sudyk how he threw spitballs with substances like Vaseline and K-Y Jelly, and a "puffball" using rosin dust.
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Gaylord Perry showed Sudyk how he hid additives on his uniform and body.
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Gaylord Perry started four consecutive Opening Day games for the team, the first Indians pitcher to do so since Bob Feller from 1946 to 1949.
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Gaylord Perry accounted for 39 percent of all Cleveland wins during his tenure.
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Gaylord Perry remained as Cleveland's last 20-game winner, until Cliff Lee in 2008.
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Gaylord Perry again won 15 games, this time against only 12 defeats, in a rotation that included double-digit winners Doyle Alexander, Bert Blyleven, and Dock Ellis.
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Gaylord Perry's contract was up after the 1980 season and he signed a one-year, $300,000 contract with the Atlanta Braves.
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Also in 1983, Gaylord Perry was involved in the Pine Tar Game against the New York Yankees.
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Gaylord Perry briefly worked for Fiesta Foods as a sales manager, and later in the year Limestone College in Gaffney, South Carolina, chose Perry to be the college's first baseball coach.
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In 1998, Gaylord Perry was inducted into the Limestone College Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Gaylord Perry supported the Republican Party, campaigned for Jesse Helms and contemplated a bid for Congress himself in 1986.
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Gaylord Perry was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame on March 9,2009.
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Gaylord Perry was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa—The National Leadership Honor Society—at Campbell University in 1978.
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Bill James lists Gaylord Perry as having the tenth best career of any right-handed starting pitcher, and the 50th greatest player at any position.
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Gaylord Perry is one of six pitchers to win the Cy Young Award in both the American and National League.
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Gaylord Perry held the record for most consecutive 15-win seasons since 1900 with 13 and was second all-time to Cy Young, who had 15.
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In 1988, Gaylord Perry launched the Limestone College Baseball Program in Gaffney, South Carolina, and his son Jack was an inaugural team member.
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Gaylord Perry's nephew, Chris, is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour.
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