Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball, died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, at his home in Gaffney, S.C. He was 84. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) AP.

Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using the pitch, died Thursday at his home in Gaffney, S.C. Perry, who was ...

Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using the pitch, died Thursday. He was 84.

Gaylord Perry, a burly Hall of Fame pitcher who struck out more than 3,500 batters and won 314 games while acquiring a reputation as the king of the spitball, the illegal pitch that he used — or ...

Gaylord Perry, the Hall of Fame pitcher with a durable right arm and a penchant for lathering the baseball with saliva, grease and other peculiar substances, died Thursday at his home in Gaffney ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using the pitch, died Thursday.

Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, shown greeting fans during the 2018 All-Star Game in Washington, D.C., died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, at his home in Gaffney, S.C. He was 84. AP ...

Perry, who pitched for eight major-league teams from 1962 until 1983, 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 ...

After that game, Perry kept throwing spitballs and turned into one of the best right-handers in the game. His first big season was going 21-8 with a 2.99 ERA for the Giants in 1966.