Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, the king of the spitball, died Thursday morning at his home in Gaffney, South Carolina. He was 84. Rest in peace.
Whenever Perry was asked if he did throw a spitball, according to Russ Schneider’s Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia, he would reply, “That’s for me to know and you to worry about.”
Perry was frequently the target of umpires coming to the mound to search him for a foreign substance at the request of the opposing manager. But he was only ejected once in his career for throwing an illegal pitch. “He didn’t find anything on me or the ball, but when he saw one of my pitches sink about two feet he came running out to the mound and said, ‘That’s it Gaylord, you’re outta here,’” Perry is quoted as saying in the Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia.
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