His family said that Perry died after a short illness. 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.
File photo of pitcher Gaylord Perry, of San Diego Padres, doffing his hat to the applauding Chicago Cubs fans as he approaches the plate in the ninth inning against the Cubs in Chicago, Ill., July 14, 1978.
“Before I won my second Cy Young, I thought I was too old — I didn’t think the writers would vote for me,” Perry said in an article on the National Baseball Hall of Fame website. “But they voted on my performance, so I won it.” “During our 10 seasons together in the San Francisco Giants rotation, we combined to record 369 complete games, more than any pair of teammates in the Major Leagues,” Marichal said."I will always remember Gaylord for his love and devotion to the game of baseball, his family, and his farm.”
Perry's 1974 autobiography was titled “Me and the Spitter," and he wrote it in that when he started in 1962 he was the “11th man on an 11-man pitching staff” for the Giants. He needed an edge and learned the spitball from San Francisco teammate Bob Shaw. Giants teammate Orlando Cepeda said Perry had “a great sense of humor ... a great personality and was my baseball brother.”
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