Gaylord Perry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gaylord Perry

American baseball player

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1938

Place of Birth: Williamston, South Carolina, United States

Profession: baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gaylord Jackson Perry (born September 15, 1938) is an American former professional baseball player.
He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for eight different teams from 1962 to 1983.
During a 22-year baseball career, Perry compiled 314 wins, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average.
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. Perry, a five-time All-Star, was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in each league, winning it in the American League in 1972 with the Cleveland Indians and in the National League in 1978 with the San Diego Padres.
He is also distinguished, along with his brother Jim Perry, for being part of the second-winningest brother combination in baseball history—second only to the knuckleball throwing brothers, Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro.
While pitching for the Seattle Mariners in 1982, Perry became the fifteenth member of the 300 win club. Despite Perry's notoriety for doctoring baseballs (e.g.
throwing a spitball), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them on a regular basis – he even went so far as to title his 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter – he was not ejected for the illegal practice until August 23, 1982, in his 21st season in the majors.