Happy birthday, Gaylord Perry

September 15, 2010

The author of Me & The Spitter The Candid Confessions of Baseball’s Greatest Spitball Artist (or How I Got Away With It) (with Bob Sudyk), turns 72 today.

I was at the Hall of Fame once, attending the annual Cooperstown Symposium (which I highly recommend) and word came down that Perry was in the building. The HoF staff sent a memo around specifically instructing people not to approach him for an autograph or even make eye contact. All right, I made up that second part, but the approaching part is a true story.

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