Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young winner, Gaylord Perry, died Thursday. He was 84.
Perry died at his home in Gaffney, South Carolina at about 5 a.m. Thursday of natural causes, a Coroner told the AP.
He played Major League Baseball for 22 years and pitched 5,350 innings for eight different teams from 1962-1983. Well known for his spitball, he also incorporated an exceptional fastball and curve. He titled his 1974 autobiography “Me and the Spitter.” Perry’s first team was the San Francisco Giants, where he played with four other future Hall of Famers: Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal and Orlando Cepeda.
A five-time All Star, he was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991. He won the Cy Young award with Cleveland in 1972 and with San Diego in 1978 just after turning 40, the first pitcher to do so in both leagues.
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