RIP Gaylord Perry

[TheSportsPredictor]

Managed to hit a homer minutes after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon:

Gaylord Perry, two-time Cy Young winner, dies at 88

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

They should bury him in a casket that looks like a Vaseline tub.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

July 3, 1973
Starting pitchers
Gaylord Perry for the Indians
Jim Perry for the Tigers
Tigers win 5-4
Gaylord takes the L
Jim gets no decision
Gaylord didn’t really get his due until he was traded to Cleveland
Some guy named Marichal was the ace in San Francisco

 

[Vombatus]

They should bury him in a casket that looks like a Vaseline tub.

Or at least have Vaseline on the casket handles.

 

[CD Boogie]

Managed to hit a homer minutes after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon:

Gaylord Perry, two-time Cy Young winner, dies at 88

They got him listed as either 84 or 88; messy. He was 84. Clean it up, San Diego

 

[melock]

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I have an autographed ball from him. No Vaseline ... he used to own the building in which my step-grandmother - who I treated as a biological grandmother because the latter died 10 years before I was born - worked in. In the box she sent me a handwritten note with the ball indicating that he was the only man who won the Cy Young in both leagues, which was true at the time ... and a large bag of plain M&Ms.

She worked in an unpretentious building in a small, unpretentious town. The town in which Gaylord Perry was born.

RIP, good sir and Thank You.

 

[CD Boogie]

I remember seeing him get out the passenger side of a convertible Caddy in Cooperstown over induction weekend back in maybe 1996. Big cowboy hat, bushy mustache, total Southerner rolling in like Boss Hogg.

I really got to get back to an induction weekend. Been to several, but not in like 20 years.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I have an autographed ball from him. No Vaseline ... he used to own the building in which my step-grandmother - who I treated as a biological grandmother because the latter died 10 years before I was born - worked in. In the box she sent me a handwritten note with the ball indicating that he was the only man who won the Cy Young in both leagues, which was true at the time ... and a large bag of plain M&Ms.

She worked in an unpretentious building in a small, unpretentious town. The town in which Gaylord Perry was born.

RIP, good sir and Thank You.

I thought he still lived in Williamston, but saw in his obit he had lived in Gaffney, S.C., for quite some time. Wonder if he knew Frank Underwood?

 

[HanSenSE]

Legend has it he started throwing the spitter while pitching 10 innings of relief in the second game of a doubleheader vs. the Mets at Shea that went 22 innings. In the same game, Willie Mays ended the game at shortstop for the Giants.

 

[mateen]

If this story is true, and I believe it is, Gaylord seems like he was a hell of a guy ("Richard Nixon" is the persona of a guy who has a mock Twitter account in which he absolutely nails Nixon's phrasing/manner of speech).

Gaylord Perry Saves the Day

 

[micropolitan guy]

If this story is true, and I believe it is, Gaylord seems like he was a hell of a guy ("Richard Nixon" is the persona of a guy who has a mock Twitter account in which he absolutely nails Nixon's phrasing/manner of speech).

Gaylord Perry Saves the Day

That's a great story. It's always nice to be reminded there are still nice people in the world. For that day alone Gaylord's an HOFer in my book.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

If this story is true, and I believe it is, Gaylord seems like he was a hell of a guy ("Richard Nixon" is the persona of a guy who has a mock Twitter account in which he absolutely nails Nixon's phrasing/manner of speech).

Gaylord Perry Saves the Day

As tremendous as that was, my no. 1 takeaway is that the Nixon Twitter guy is barely 40?! That's remarkable. I figured he/she was well north of 50, Awfully impressive to nail the persona so well when he was barely a teenager upon Nixon's death.

 

[mateen]

It is uncanny - he has Nixon's manner of speech absolutely nailed. And oh, does this incarnation of Nixon hate Marco Rubio.

 

[qtlaw]

I was a huge Perry fan when he wore the SF cap and utterly bummed when he got traded for Sam McDowell and Frank Duffy!! It was Juan and Perry, why did you do that?!?! Then Perry goes on to win the Cy Young for Cle and SD. He had a rubber arm and threw strikes. Loved him. May he RIP. Thanks for the memories Gaylord.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I was a huge Perry fan when he wore the SF cap and utterly bummed when he got traded for Sam McDowell and Frank Duffy!! It was Juan and Perry, why did you do that?!?! Then Perry goes on to win the Cy Young for Cle and SD. He had a rubber arm and threw strikes. Loved him. May he RIP. Thanks for the memories Gaylord.

Sudden Sam and Luis Tiant for the Indians were damn good

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

If this story is true, and I believe it is, Gaylord seems like he was a hell of a guy ("Richard Nixon" is the persona of a guy who has a mock Twitter account in which he absolutely nails Nixon's phrasing/manner of speech).

Gaylord Perry Saves the Day

Very cool. Just texted that to several people.

 

[qtlaw]

Sudden Sam and Luis Tiant for the Indians were damn good

Sudden Sam was NOT Gaylord when he put on the SF cap.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Sudden Sam was NOT Gaylord when he put on the SF cap.

That was about the time his drinking caught up to him

 

[hickory_smoke]

It is uncanny - he has Nixon's manner of speech absolutely nailed. And oh, does this incarnation of Nixon hate Marco Rubio.

My God he hates Rubio.