MLB: Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry dies

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Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry died on Thursday morning. He was 84.

Perry died of natural causes at his home in Gaffney, S.C., the Cherokee County Coroner confirmed.

Known as the master of the spitball, Perry posted a 314-265 record with a 3.11 ERA and 3,534 strikeouts while pitching for eight different teams during his 22-season career (1962-83). The five-time All-Star won the American League Cy Young Award with the then-Cleveland Indians in 1972 and the National League Cy Young with the San Diego Padres six years later.

Perry, who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991, didn’t shy away from accusations that he used additional substances — i.e. Vaseline — on the baseball in his 1974 memoir, “Me and the Spitter.”

“I’d always have it (grease) in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off,” he wrote. “I never wanted to be caught out there with anything, though. It wouldn’t be professional.”

–Field Level Media

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