Someone asked Perry about throwing spitballs. He said, "Oh, no, I don't do that anymore." An opposing manager commented, "He doesn't do it any less, either."
my favorite statement from Gaylord Perry was "Everyone keeps asking me what kind of foreign substance was I putting on the ball? And I always answered I never put any foreign substance on the ball. Everything I used was American made"
In his book 'Me and the Spitter' Perry wrote "I threw an extraordinarily good pitch-which was hit an extraordinarily long distance." Like the guy's sense of humor.
@Leonardo's Truth - Drysdale led the league more than once in hit batters. Ironically, the movie car, the "Love Bug" was given number 53 in honor of Drysdale.
True. Prior to Johnson & Johnson selling KY Jelly to a UK company in 2014, it was invented in New York and made in the USA for 100 years. Gaylord Perry is a patriot.
Perry was pitching for the Mariners at the Kingdome when one of his pitches was fouled back into the window in front of the press booth, leaving a noticeable smear in the glass. Asked about this, after the game, Perry replied "It [the ball] must have hit a mosquito on the way up."
Typical smartass/comical reply from Perry. Love it! They don't have players like this anymore. The All-Star game against Johnny Bench and Pete Rose during the mid-seventies Perry went over to Bench and Rose and shook their hands stating he was looking forward to pitching against them. He left their hands smeared with vaseline lol. Wish I had the baseball card of George Brett holding his 'pine tar' bat with Perry holding his 'spitball' the one last year he played for the Royals. Who knows, maybe they brought him in to teach younger pitchers how to get away with it.
I played under Bob Shaw at Dwyer H.S. and when he was the Manager for American Legion Post 271 Jupiter. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about him. He made baseball fun and relied on the basics. He was eccentric and made everyone feel like they were special. Nobody could boost confidence in a player better than him. He made everyone who played for him feel like they were his favorite player, getting the best out of all of us. I miss ya Coach.. but your legacy will always live on.. RIP
Gotta love the story from Petey Rose about how he hit a pitch from Perry in the 70's and saw the spit splash off the bat. Baseball today is a different sport than it was in the great 60's and 70's. It might as well be Cricket today. Old baseball was REAL baseball.
When I lived in the Dallas area I would head to Arlington to watch him pitch for the Rangers. I would take binoculars and keep them trained on Perry. He was a master of doctoring the ball. No one could catch him. One of my most prized possesion is a signed baseball by Gaylord Perry to go with my Johnny Bench, Nolan Ryan and Mickey Mantle balls. RIP Gaylord from one of your biggest fans.
In 1978 Perry was pitching for the Padres and earned a Cy Young award. What I remember most about that year was a game in Houston when the lights went out during the game. It wasn't pitch black dark, but it wasn't safe enough for hitters to face a fastball either. After a while the players came out to do a few things to entertain the fans while they waited for the lights to come back on. Perry came out with a bucket of water and a baseball and proceeded to dunk the baseball in the bucket before pitching to teammate Randy Jones. The umpire called the first pitch a strike and Jones started complaining to the ump. While he complained Perry sneaked up behind him and dumped the bucket over the head of Jones.
I met the man at Baltimore. A really nice guy, his hands were huge. He could grip that baseball anyway he wanted. His fork ball was wicked all over the place.
I met him at a Fan Fest for the Texas Rangers. He signed a ball for me. I asked him to spit on it. He licked 2 fingers and slapped them on the ball. One of my favorite baseball memories. RIP Gaylord.
I threw a knuckle ball, kept my fingernails just long enough to scuff up the ball as much as possible. Any leather on the ball will catch air and move more because the ball doesn't spin. It surprised me sometimes, i had pitches drop 2 to 3 ft. before they reached the plate. A headwind is helpful also, and old wrigley field would have been a knuckle ball pitchers dream, the wind was always blowing out toward the mound.
I saw Perry pitch Live in 1972..... His motions where he touched nearly every part of his body before throwing was wild ! It was easy to see how it not only was distracting to a hitter - the hitter also would have no idea if the wet one was coming or not......
yes, 1974-75...they set a record fro the most wins in 1 season by 2 brothers pitching for the same team....if i recall right, in 1 of those years, Gaylord won his first 16 starts!...ended up with about 24 wins and brother jim had 14 or 15?....Jim Perry had also pitched for Indians in the 1950s
@@essessessesq: I remember seeing jim pitch for the indians at the old cleveland stadium. There were probably more popcorn vendors in the stadium that day than there were fans in attendance. I was still thrilled to be there tho.
@@essessessesq: I remember going to a game in the early seventies with some older family members. We sat in the bleachers and for some reason i want to say the bleacher tickets were less than a dollar, maybe that was a reduced admission night? Not sure.
@@midnightrider7648 My recollection of the 1960s ticket prices is that bleacher tickets were 75 cents.....general admission was $1.50 for upper deck.....some of the lower deck was $1.50 general admission, and the rest of the lower deck was $2.50 EXCEPT for the Field Boxes, that were $3.00-------In the '70s bleachers probably over a dollar, except maybe on a special occasion,,,,HEY, if that game you were at was 1974 or later, then John Adams was with you in the bleachers, banging his drum!
I watched perry pitch I think he did all that hand moving and wiping to pysch a hitter, instead of focusing on the at bat your wondering about the spitter.
Eddie Harris was the old spitballer for the Cleveland Indians in Major League (the Movie). Bob Uecker was in Major League (the Movie) and Bob Uecker caught real-life old spitballer Gaylord Perry, who at one point, pitched for the Cleveland Indians. Most people believe that Gaylord Perry is who inspired Eddie Harris
Thank you for uploading this! I had this cassette when I was younger. I remember lots of the other stories on it: the golfer who called himself "Black Nicklaus", the really tall twins playing high school basketball, and the softball "home run king". Do you other clips from it lying around? Could you upload the entire thing? I would love to see more of this!
When Gaylord Perry went into the Hall of fame, Fergison Genkins spoke first and Canadian flag started flying, then when Rod Carew spoke and Panamanian flags started flying, and when Gaylord Perry started speaking it began to rain.
Yogi Berra used a file to put a sharp edge on the metal buckle of hir right shin guard. Every time he got his hands on a new ball, he would drag drag it across the buckle.
In August 1983, Boston played the Royals at Arrowhead in KC. I was in town for a sprint car race at I 70 in Odessa. We got free tickets to the Sunday afternoon game and it was really a great game. I got to see Gaylord pitch in one of his last games and got to see Yaz play one more time. I remember KC won the game but I can't remember the score. I'm pretty sure that Yaz got a double but memory is a little fuzzy. A lot of people didn't give Gaylord the credit he deserved. He should've been a first ballot hall of fame but it took several years. The amazing thing is that people thought he cheated because he threw the old snot ball, but they completely overlooked the 75% that were either doing coke or some form of ped. I look at the guys that managed to get into the hall that obviously juiced and see guys like Bonds and Clemons getting crucified. Talk about a double standard, Mike Schmidt, Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, Ricky Henderson, Nolan Ryan, George Brett. The list offends a lot of people but if you look at everything with suspect, you get a lot truer picture than when you wear the blinders.
As a former pitcher I can attest to the spitball...there are several ways to make a ball move...Yes Vaseline..k-y jelly fly line dressing brylcream..or stuffing a ball with sandpaper ...now then why do pitchers ask for a new ball when one is fouled off or caught in the dirt?...because a scuffed ball is harder to control the harder you throw it..
A sports reporter in KC That stated he was the real bulldog , that was a character on Frasier show Stayed the Gaylord perry was the real BiklBraskey on SNL , as in the K C Royals clubhouse , Brett , Watham ,Quirk and another Would drink with George B because his beer cut off was and hour after normal, they would always get around to Perry's shenanigans That he was known for , like trying to make off with the 83 pinetar bat
baseball commissioner ford frick said he had no problem with the spitter in 1955. luckily more logical minds prevailed and it didn't become legal again. can you imagine a legal pitch these days with the chemicals they have? it would be 10 times as bad a steroids were.
How is Perry in the HOF when he openly admits that he cheated when he pitched? Very odd how society excuses one person for cheating but is very, very vindictive towards another person. They are both cheaters but one of them is given a pass, why?
There's this thing called sarcasm, where someone says something as though they mean it, even though they clearly don't. Autistic people tend to hate it because it requires social context to determine sagacity, something it takes them much more energy to collect/process, usually meaning they tend to either miss it or deliberately prefer to ignore. (Note: I feel your pain, but this entire comment was slightly sarcastic, even though it was all true. Good luck!! 😂🤷♀️)
Back then they called it a fork ball, nowadays referred to as a split fingered fastball. Back then they threw the screwball, today that pitch is called a cutter. Only the names have changed.
Michael Fitzgerald the cutter(Rivera, Pettite, Abbot) is the name of the old slider.(Guidry and Carlton threw the modern slider).The screwball moves the opposite direction and is off-speed(reverse curveball). See:Carl Hubbell & Fernando Valenzuela.
@@kingcassius2586 : The screwball requires turning the wrist to the inside as it releases the ball, which is very difficult to do well enough to cause that anti-clockwise spin. It's hard on the elbow, too, but a good screwball is the hardest pitch to hit, in part because so few pitchers can throw it well enough to use on a regular basis: when it doesn't spin enough it comes in as a non-moving fastball. Remember the line in Bull Durham, "Man that ball got out of here in a hurry."? That's what happens when a good hitter can sit on a fastball. Also see: Luis Arroyo of the '61 Yankees.
Crisco, Bardol, Vagisil... and if the umps are watching, in between innings, I'll rub a little Jalepeno in my nose and get it running 'n just wipe my nose.
Uecker was exaggerating a WEE bit here...he went to bat against the great Gaylord Perry, no doubt. But I seriously doubt he ever got a hit off the man. BTW: Gaylord could hit quite well- I saw him homer in person! I have not checked, but it would not surprise me at all if he retired with a higher batting average than Ueck!
Jamie Mcvay Oh that's good! That's good! ...I'm sure he was worth every nickel & dime they paid him just for his great wit, comments, knowledge of The Game, and overall a pillar of moral in the dugout. That WAS a goodie! Thanks, you made my day!
why not get really sweaty! Do they have a rule about that! Can They make you use a sweat band? You could go in a sauna between innings where the sweat is pouring?
I remember watching him pitch and 99% of his movements were a head game to the opposing manager and batters. Every game they tried to catch him and failed. It was like an art form that he invented and rode to a 300 win career.
Perry was a player I have little respect for. I can respect a pitcher who plays the game fairly and still beats hitters with good stuff or great command of the strike zone, or both. But a cheater is only successful by breaking the rules. On another topic, I love Bob Uecker's classic description of how he caught the knuckle ball: "Just wait until it sops moving and then pick it up!"
"Nyah, why you whining, Doc?" CHEATING! You're a big "Whiney Baby"! Some of your favorite pitchers probably "cheated" too, using stuff to scuff the ball & laces, foreign substances, using sweat on the laces of one side only--knowing they soak it up like a sponge and its IMPOSSIBLE to tell, as well as other pitching "secrets". I was a catcher, and some of the crapola pitchers think up to doctor the ball imperceptibly and invisibly are truly ingenious. Perry was great; had legendary control; threw knucklers, forkballs, a tricky fast ball that looked like anything but a fast ball, and the spitter too. His mental intimidation was really something else! And Perry could hit as well as any pitcher ever! I witnessed him homer to win his own game with the Padres. Stop yer bitchin', ok pard?
It's hilarious reading this comment thread full of old boomers who most likely hate guys like Altuve, Hinch, Correa, Marwin Gonzalez, or even Michael Pineda, Sosa, ARod, etc but think these "good old boys" were just the absolute best thing since sliced bread. Total hypocrisy.
@@THE-HammerMan Bonds was great too but using steroids still taints his stats, as it does for anyone to cheat(even if many do cheat). Without roids he would still have blasted 500-650 homers but I guarantee you many would have been warning track balls instead of first 10 row shots. They call it "the steroid era" for a reason. The statistics didn't just randomly start to rise from drinking raw eggs and protein powder. Perry is in that same boat, a known cheater who's stats were inflated
@@173jaSon371 You're trying to tell me? I saw them both many many times. Steroids were used by tons of players in all sports. Pitchers too, sonny. When one was banned, they used one that hadn't been yet. SO F-ING WHAT? It was part of the game in a (Thankfully!) bygone era. Bonds vs Ruth, well... Ruth would've hit TWICE as many homers with modern baseballs, and Bonds could've ate bowls of steroids for breakfast and not done that!!! Aaron did it WITHOUT steroids; but was not Ruth's equal. Many many pitchers doctored the ball in baseball's past. Gaylord Perry was phenomenal. Even without 'doctoring' the ball, his placement and savvy knowing every nuance of every hitter made him dangerous. His stats were what they were(are), and are not over inflated one dang bit. And BTW: I'd like to see anyone take steroids and hit fastballs coming at you at 95, 98 and 103 miles per hour. Steroids had to be combined with tremendous talent & skill. They never worked miracles on their own!
@@173jaSon371 I don't 'hate' any of the guys you listed. I merely expressed a personal opinion. The fact is, Sosa and McGwire were both juiced up the year they had that 'so-called' great run of homers. Roger Clemon's won-loss record iand carer era are tainted, due to his steroid use. Ditto for A "Roid" who, in wha seemed to me at the time to be a "limited hangout", admitted to using steroids in order to recover faster from injury. There's a name for that practice: cheating. Michael Pineda, like plenty of others who didn't get caught, used pine tar or other sticky sustances to create more spin on his breaking ball, therefore making it more effective. In other words, he cheated. Jose Altuve plays for the Astros, who famously 'sign-stole' their way to the asterisk-tainted 2017 World Series title. Abetting a cheater through one's silence is an error of omission, not commisson, but nevertheless still cheating. Hinch and Luhnow both get a year suspension and were fired by the team. Jim Crane new nothing about the sign stealing. Cora got gassed by Boston for a year and then re-hired. The team payed millions in fines and had draft picks taken away. Cheaters in professional or amatuer athletics are a mile wide and an inch deep. That makes them rather pathetic to me, and also makes them lousy role models for the impressionable young kids who watch their games. The fact that you would choose to support, rather than criticize them says as much about your malleable moralityas it does about the cheaters you quoted. last thought: If you don't like my opinions, then get a life!
Someone asked Perry about throwing spitballs. He said, "Oh, no, I don't do that anymore." An opposing manager commented, "He doesn't do it any less, either."
my favorite statement from Gaylord Perry was "Everyone keeps asking me what kind of foreign substance was I putting on the ball? And I always answered I never put any foreign substance on the ball. Everything I used was American made"
In his book 'Me and the Spitter' Perry wrote "I threw an extraordinarily good pitch-which was hit an extraordinarily long distance." Like the guy's sense of humor.
@Leonardo's Truth - Drysdale led the league more than once in hit batters. Ironically, the movie car, the "Love Bug" was given number 53 in honor of Drysdale.
😂
True. Prior to Johnson & Johnson selling KY Jelly to a UK company in 2014, it was invented in New York and made in the USA for 100 years. Gaylord Perry is a patriot.
That's funny.
Bob Uecker has been at age 60 for the past 85 years.
Once he retired form being a player, he immediately changed into what he looks like today the second he got home. Gray hair and everything.
Ageless
Good one
Perry was pitching for the Mariners at the Kingdome when one of his pitches was fouled back into the window in front of the press booth, leaving a noticeable smear in the glass. Asked about this, after the game, Perry replied "It [the ball] must have hit a mosquito on the way up."
Typical smartass/comical reply from Perry. Love it! They don't have players like this anymore. The All-Star game against Johnny Bench and Pete Rose during the mid-seventies Perry went over to Bench and Rose and shook their hands stating he was looking forward to pitching against them. He left their hands smeared with vaseline lol.
Wish I had the baseball card of George Brett holding his 'pine tar' bat with Perry holding his 'spitball' the one last year he played for the Royals. Who knows, maybe they brought him in to teach younger pitchers how to get away with it.
Bob Uecker in the title = like before even watching
Whether he was throwing it or not he was playing a mind game on every pitch.
True, it was the hitters thinking about the spitter that was his main advantage..
Lou Piniella, in his book, said that Perry threw a spitter, just not as often as everyone believed. Meanwhile he messed with hitters' minds.
His pre-pitch routine was designed to get batters to assume he was loading up the ball.
@@lawrencemarocco8197 He did, but not every time.
90% of the game is half mental, my fave Yogiism of all time
I played under Bob Shaw at Dwyer H.S. and when he was the Manager for American Legion Post 271 Jupiter. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about him. He made baseball fun and relied on the basics. He was eccentric and made everyone feel like they were special. Nobody could boost confidence in a player better than him. He made everyone who played for him feel like they were his favorite player, getting the best out of all of us. I miss ya Coach.. but your legacy will always live on.. RIP
"Indians scored 1 run on.... 1 hit.... That's all we got was 1 God damn hit!?" hahah major league 😂 😂
That smirk on his face when he is saying he throws a fork ball. Love it.
Gotta love the story from Petey Rose about how he hit a pitch from Perry in the 70's and saw the spit splash off the bat. Baseball today is a different sport than it was in the great 60's and 70's. It might as well be Cricket today. Old baseball was REAL baseball.
Perry did everything short of wiping his ass with the ball before delivering the pitch.
He was the Nomar Garciaparra of pitchers.
Kept that secret !
The old man pitcher Eddie Harris from the movie " Major League" is totally based on Gaylord Perry.
One of my favorites all time. RIP Gaylord and thanks for the good times.
When I lived in the Dallas area I would head to Arlington to watch him pitch for the Rangers. I would take binoculars and keep them trained on Perry. He was a master of doctoring the ball. No one could catch him. One of my most prized possesion is a signed baseball by Gaylord Perry to go with my Johnny Bench, Nolan Ryan and Mickey Mantle balls. RIP Gaylord from one of your biggest fans.
You should get the Perry ball checked for any KY jelly that got rubbed into it ! LOL 😂
What a collection you have! Wow! That’s fantastic!
In 1978 Perry was pitching for the Padres and earned a Cy Young award. What I remember most about that year was a game in Houston when the lights went out during the game. It wasn't pitch black dark, but it wasn't safe enough for hitters to face a fastball either. After a while the players came out to do a few things to entertain the fans while they waited for the lights to come back on. Perry came out with a bucket of water and a baseball and proceeded to dunk the baseball in the bucket before pitching to teammate Randy Jones. The umpire called the first pitch a strike and Jones started complaining to the ump. While he complained Perry sneaked up behind him and dumped the bucket over the head of Jones.
Mr. Perry is a class act. A great HOF player and fellow North Carolinian. One of my favorite all time players ! Wish the Braves kept him longer.
Peanut farmer also. My dad remembered getting an Allis-Chalmers equipment flyer in the mail featuring Perry on his farm using their equipment.
...agree doug, he was a great addition to the Padres, was hugely popular here!
Douglas: I wish the Indians dad him on the roster with Jim for most of their careers, as well.
@Leonardo's Truth no you're just a regular boy
You forgot to mention “cheater”
Gaylord Perry. My gosh. He and Jim Palmer were my favorites pitchers! Gaylord Perry. My goodness. What a great memory.
Perry clearly lying his ass off in this is hilarious!!
I met the man at Baltimore. A really nice guy, his hands were huge. He could grip that baseball anyway he wanted. His fork ball was wicked all over the place.
I met him at a Fan Fest for the Texas Rangers. He signed a ball for me. I asked him to spit on it. He licked 2 fingers and slapped them on the ball. One of my favorite baseball memories. RIP Gaylord.
Classic. With age, do the fingerprints show? That, to me, would make it a must-have baseball.
RIP Gaylord Perry thanks for the memories 🙏🏻
I threw a knuckle ball, kept my fingernails just long enough to scuff up the ball as much as possible. Any leather on the ball will catch air and move more because the ball doesn't spin. It surprised me sometimes, i had pitches drop 2 to 3 ft. before they reached the plate. A headwind is helpful also, and old wrigley field would have been a knuckle ball pitchers dream, the wind was always blowing out toward the mound.
Almost fell off my chair at that last line
Bob Uecker has the best self-effacing humor of any person I recall!
Eucker: “They announced that I’m not going to play again this year.“
So funny! 😂🤣
How do you catch a knuckleball? Eucker: Wait for it to stop rolling and then pick it up.
We was like a conductor out on the mound with his motions. I miss those days!
LMAO!!!! Uecker throws a zinger in right at the end!!!
Uecker talking about Perry. Classic!
Back when baseball was a fun game to watch.
Too cable baseball,❤️ free tv
I could listen to Bob call games all day.
I saw Perry pitch Live in 1972..... His motions where he touched nearly every part of his body before throwing was wild ! It was easy to see how it not only was distracting to a hitter - the hitter also would have no idea if the wet one was coming or not......
Bob Uecker was smiling here. Later, he stopped doing it and became even funnier.
I saw gaylord perry pitch at the old cleveland stadium. His brother jim pitched for the indians for a while together on the same team as gaylord.
yes, 1974-75...they set a record fro the most wins in 1 season by 2 brothers pitching for the same team....if i recall right, in 1 of those years, Gaylord won his first 16 starts!...ended up with about 24 wins and brother jim had 14 or 15?....Jim Perry had also pitched for Indians in the 1950s
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I remember seeing jim pitch for the indians at the old cleveland stadium. There were probably more popcorn vendors in the stadium that day than there were fans in attendance. I was still thrilled to be there tho.
@@midnightrider7648 Now that is funny! And the beer vendors....a field box seat was $3 when i was a kid....now, maybe $60?
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I remember going to a game in the early seventies with some older family members. We sat in the bleachers and for some reason i want to say the bleacher tickets were less than a dollar, maybe that was a reduced admission night? Not sure.
@@midnightrider7648 My recollection of the 1960s ticket prices is that bleacher tickets were 75 cents.....general admission was $1.50 for upper deck.....some of the lower deck was $1.50 general admission, and the rest of the lower deck was $2.50 EXCEPT for the Field Boxes, that were $3.00-------In the '70s bleachers probably over a dollar, except maybe on a special occasion,,,,HEY, if that game you were at was 1974 or later, then John Adams was with you in the bleachers, banging his drum!
I watched perry pitch I think he did all that hand moving and wiping to pysch a hitter, instead of focusing on the at bat your wondering about the spitter.
Agreed. Not saying he never threw the spitter because I'm sure he did, but most of it was just show.
I'm sure he threw it, but I'll bet it was far less often than the hitters suspected.
He admitted to throwing it after he retired and wrote a book, "Me and the Spitter."
Yes, definitely had the hitters guessing. 10w30 or 20w50?
Bob has the perfect baseball voice for announcing, and I don’t even watch baseball
So Gaylord used KY jelly? And he always spit on balls? Lol these jokes write themselves.
I burst out in laughter
I found the name Gaylord funny when I was 7 years old at a baseball game, and I still find that name funny now 30 years later. Lol
Happy 40th!
fantastic!
He won his 300th against the Yankees with Seattle in '82.
Bob Uecker, perhaps the greatest hitter in the history of professional baseball.
He loved the girls!😅
Sparky Anderson was always saying this guy was throwing a spitter.
Eddie Harris was the old spitballer for the Cleveland Indians in Major League (the Movie). Bob Uecker was in Major League (the Movie) and Bob Uecker caught real-life old spitballer Gaylord Perry, who at one point, pitched for the Cleveland Indians.
Most people believe that Gaylord Perry is who inspired Eddie Harris
RIP Gaylord Perry. A victim of covid. He should still be here.
Thank you for uploading this! I had this cassette when I was younger. I remember lots of the other stories on it: the golfer who called himself "Black Nicklaus", the really tall twins playing high school basketball, and the softball "home run king". Do you other clips from it lying around? Could you upload the entire thing? I would love to see more of this!
REST IN PEACE GAYLORD PERRY :'(
“It’s loaded up!”😝
Bobby U. Riding the pine again this year?? When will they learn! Love ya man!!
..... Back in the 60's I remember a Giant being asked if he spit on the ball... He said no... I spit in my glove...
Baseball is beautiful
When Gaylord Perry went into the Hall of fame, Fergison Genkins spoke first and Canadian flag started flying, then when Rod Carew spoke and Panamanian flags started flying, and when Gaylord Perry started speaking it began to rain.
Yogi Berra used a file to put a sharp edge on the metal buckle of hir right shin guard. Every time he got his hands on a new ball, he would drag drag it across the buckle.
God that had to be rough, growing up with the name Gaylord.
Makes you tough
Thank You
Rene
He's a big guy. Whatever was said I doubt it was to his face! Lol
Actually the word “gay” wasn’t commonly used to describe homosexuality in the 50’s and early 60’s when he was growing up. “Queer” was the term.
no, back then the word meant "happy and carefree"
Yea, Gaylord and ky jelly!😮
In August 1983, Boston played the Royals at Arrowhead in KC. I was in town for a sprint car race at I 70 in Odessa. We got free tickets to the Sunday afternoon game and it was really a great game. I got to see Gaylord pitch in one of his last games and got to see Yaz play one more time. I remember KC won the game but I can't remember the score. I'm pretty sure that Yaz got a double but memory is a little fuzzy. A lot of people didn't give Gaylord the credit he deserved. He should've been a first ballot hall of fame but it took several years. The amazing thing is that people thought he cheated because he threw the old snot ball, but they completely overlooked the 75% that were either doing coke or some form of ped. I look at the guys that managed to get into the hall that obviously juiced and see guys like Bonds and Clemons getting crucified. Talk about a double standard, Mike Schmidt, Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, Ricky Henderson, Nolan Ryan, George Brett. The list offends a lot of people but if you look at everything with suspect, you get a lot truer picture than when you wear the blinders.
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@Scott ?????? : Brett used a corked bat, which is every bit as much cheating as what anyone else did.
ITS LOADED UP! he lowkey sounding like an og salesman trying to sneak some magic oilments to a crowd
This video needed more Uecker!
I tried for a solid year to get that pitch down and could not get a handle on it. I had a decent split but never got the Squirt to work all the time.
My favorite Dodger pitcher was Burt Hooten! And Burt had Bob Shaw’s #!!
Wow, my hero geylord Perry
As a former pitcher I can attest to the spitball...there are several ways to make a ball move...Yes Vaseline..k-y jelly fly line dressing brylcream..or stuffing a ball with sandpaper ...now then why do pitchers ask for a new ball when one is fouled off or caught in the dirt?...because a scuffed ball is harder to control the harder you throw it..
Don't believe he ever got caught throwing one in a game though.Lived in batters head rent free for 20 years
Yes, he did.
Once, Aug 23 1982 , caught and ejected from the game
A sports reporter in KC That stated he was the real bulldog , that was a character on Frasier show
Stayed the Gaylord perry was the real BiklBraskey on SNL , as in the K C Royals clubhouse , Brett , Watham ,Quirk and another
Would drink with George B because his beer cut off was and hour after normal, they would always get around to Perry's shenanigans
That he was known for , like trying to make off with the 83 pinetar bat
Ky jelly - less filling but taste's great
E W all I can say is...EW
Michael: Today's lubricants come in flavors like strawberry and grape.
And I suppose they would work on balls, too.
lol.
@@coolguy02536 K•Y is water-based, evaporates quickly, and doesn't leave a sticky residue. Unlike Vaseline.
Just WHERE would baseball be without Mr Baseball Bob Uecker???
It's LOADED UP.
Classic.
Little known fact: Gaylord won the 78 Cy Young and yet didn’t make the 78 All Star Game!
Yea he got spit on that year!
The spitter gives the ball a late, break and Bob Shaw needs to keep this in house smh
baseball commissioner ford frick said he had no problem with the spitter in 1955. luckily more logical minds prevailed and it didn't become legal again. can you imagine a legal pitch these days with the chemicals they have? it would be 10 times as bad a steroids were.
The older starting pitcher in Major League, Eddie Harris was modeled on Gaylord Perry, and was brilliant at it. Or should I say Brill-Cream?
jackie gleason goes smokey and the bandit
RIP
How is Perry in the HOF when he openly admits that he cheated when he pitched? Very odd how society excuses one person for cheating but is very, very vindictive towards another person. They are both cheaters but one of them is given a pass, why?
I’ve been posing that same question at this site for years
There's this thing called sarcasm, where someone says something as though they mean it, even though they clearly don't.
Autistic people tend to hate it because it requires social context to determine sagacity, something it takes them much more energy to collect/process, usually meaning they tend to either miss it or deliberately prefer to ignore.
(Note: I feel your pain, but this entire comment was slightly sarcastic, even though it was all true. Good luck!! 😂🤷♀️)
Back then they called it a fork ball, nowadays referred to as a split fingered fastball. Back then they threw the screwball, today that pitch is called a cutter. Only the names have changed.
Michael Fitzgerald the cutter(Rivera, Pettite, Abbot) is the name of the old slider.(Guidry and Carlton threw the modern slider).The screwball moves the opposite direction and is off-speed(reverse curveball). See:Carl Hubbell & Fernando Valenzuela.
@@kingcassius2586 : The screwball requires turning the wrist to the inside as it releases the ball, which is very difficult to do well enough to cause that anti-clockwise spin. It's hard on the elbow, too, but a good screwball is the hardest pitch to hit, in part because so few pitchers can throw it well enough to use on a regular basis: when it doesn't spin enough it comes in as a non-moving fastball.
Remember the line in Bull Durham, "Man that ball got out of here in a hurry."? That's what happens when a good hitter can sit on a fastball.
Also see: Luis Arroyo of the '61 Yankees.
Guapo viejo was your reply intended for Michael Fitzgerald?
FORKBALL MY ASS LMFAO!!
That name is diabolical
I think the Eddie Harris character in Major League got some of the script from this piece here lol
Crisco, Bardol, Vagisil... and if the umps are watching, in between innings, I'll rub a little Jalepeno in my nose and get it running 'n just wipe my nose.
@@scenicdrive725 You put snot...on the ball?!!
@@colonelrobertsjr.7882 haven't got an arm like you, kid. I'll put anything I can on it... Someday, you will too.
This must be Gerrit Cole's favorite video except he used Spider tack
the guy to ask would be his catcher. now whether he would tell you is another question.
A magician never tells their secrets.. oh wait
Perry had a great fastball and pinpoint control.
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh?
Hey, isn't that Harry Doyle?
Yes
JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUST a bit outside.
Vaseline ball grounded to short... Harris winds and here's the pitch... KY ball swung on and missed... Long live Harry Doyle
Yes. You can put KY in different places!
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So now we know where Bob Menery gets his commentary voice from?
Uecker was exaggerating a WEE bit here...he went to bat against the great Gaylord Perry, no doubt. But I seriously doubt he ever got a hit off the man.
BTW: Gaylord could hit quite well- I saw him homer in person! I have not checked, but it would not surprise me at all if he retired with a higher batting average than Ueck!
Jamie Mcvay Oh that's good! That's good! ...I'm sure he was worth every nickel & dime they paid him just for his great wit, comments, knowledge of The Game, and overall a pillar of moral in the dugout.
That WAS a goodie! Thanks, you made my day!
Not quite , .131 lifetime over 22 years.
Led the league in passed balls in 1967, and only played in about 1/2 the schedule.
@@dalethelander3781 A League Leader! See? One helluva great player.
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That's ONE way of looking at him.
why not get really sweaty! Do they have a rule about that! Can They make you use a sweat band? You could go in a sauna between innings where the sweat is pouring?
Brad Vaughn it is a violation to "doctor" the baseball with any substance, including sweat.
I think Brad is insinuating that the Umps would have a hard time proving that your intention was to doctor the ball if it was your natural sweat.
Darin Preston they don't have to prove your intent. They only have to see that it is wet. That's why pitchers are given a rosen bag.
No
@@albundy6008 God, I hated those.
Bums probably in the hall of fame
I thought cheaters were supposed to be reviled (like the steroid users) but this video makes it seem like it's okay and even fun to cheat.
They put him in the Hall, so, clearly some forms of “cheating” are more acceptable than others
I remember watching him pitch and 99% of his movements were a head game to the opposing manager and batters. Every game they tried to catch him and failed. It was like an art form that he invented and rode to a 300 win career.
There was no spitball. Just like the man said. Forkball. Also known as dropball.
It's pretty common knowledge that Perry threw spitballs. Even his former teammates talk about it.
P Brickley the mariners announcers just had gaylord on and they were talking about the spitball
No. Forkball.
It was common knowledge that he threw a spitball
Lots of guys threw spitballs, it doesn’t detract from Perry’s legacy to just admit it. Everyone knew about it
😂 ..."cuz if you go to fix your pant legs, you got 'em" #lol #sneeky
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Perry was a player I have little respect for. I can respect a pitcher who plays the game fairly and still beats hitters with good stuff or great command of the strike zone, or both. But a cheater is only successful by breaking the rules. On another topic, I love Bob Uecker's classic description of how he caught the knuckle ball: "Just wait until it sops moving and then pick it up!"
"Nyah, why you whining, Doc?"
CHEATING! You're a big "Whiney Baby"! Some of your favorite pitchers probably "cheated" too, using stuff to scuff the ball & laces, foreign substances, using sweat on the laces of one side only--knowing they soak it up like a sponge and its IMPOSSIBLE to tell, as well as other pitching "secrets".
I was a catcher, and some of the crapola pitchers think up to doctor the ball imperceptibly and invisibly are truly ingenious.
Perry was great; had legendary control; threw knucklers, forkballs, a tricky fast ball that looked like anything but a fast ball, and the spitter too. His mental intimidation was really something else!
And Perry could hit as well as any pitcher ever! I witnessed him homer to win his own game with the Padres.
Stop yer bitchin', ok pard?
It's hilarious reading this comment thread full of old boomers who most likely hate guys like Altuve, Hinch, Correa, Marwin Gonzalez, or even Michael Pineda, Sosa, ARod, etc but think these "good old boys" were just the absolute best thing since sliced bread. Total hypocrisy.
@@THE-HammerMan Bonds was great too but using steroids still taints his stats, as it does for anyone to cheat(even if many do cheat). Without roids he would still have blasted 500-650 homers but I guarantee you many would have been warning track balls instead of first 10 row shots. They call it "the steroid era" for a reason. The statistics didn't just randomly start to rise from drinking raw eggs and protein powder. Perry is in that same boat, a known cheater who's stats were inflated
@@173jaSon371 You're trying to tell me? I saw them both many many times.
Steroids were used by tons of players in all sports. Pitchers too, sonny. When one was banned, they used one that hadn't been yet. SO F-ING WHAT? It was part of the game in a (Thankfully!) bygone era. Bonds vs Ruth, well... Ruth would've hit TWICE as many homers with modern baseballs, and Bonds could've ate bowls of steroids for breakfast and not done that!!! Aaron did it WITHOUT steroids; but was not Ruth's equal.
Many many pitchers doctored the ball in baseball's past. Gaylord Perry was phenomenal. Even without 'doctoring' the ball, his placement and savvy knowing every nuance of every hitter made him dangerous. His stats were what they were(are), and are not over inflated one dang bit.
And BTW: I'd like to see anyone take steroids and hit fastballs coming at you at 95, 98 and 103 miles per hour. Steroids had to be combined with tremendous talent & skill. They never worked miracles on their own!
@@173jaSon371 I don't 'hate' any of the guys you listed. I merely expressed a personal opinion. The fact is, Sosa and McGwire were both juiced up the year they had that 'so-called' great run of homers. Roger Clemon's won-loss record iand carer era are tainted, due to his steroid use. Ditto for A "Roid" who, in wha seemed to me at the time to be a "limited hangout", admitted to using steroids in order to recover faster from injury. There's a name for that practice: cheating.
Michael Pineda, like plenty of others who didn't get caught, used pine tar or other sticky sustances to create more spin on his breaking ball, therefore making it more effective. In other words, he cheated. Jose Altuve plays for the Astros, who famously 'sign-stole' their way to the asterisk-tainted 2017 World Series title. Abetting a cheater through one's silence is an error of omission, not commisson, but nevertheless still cheating. Hinch and Luhnow both get a year suspension and were fired by the team. Jim Crane new nothing about the sign stealing. Cora got gassed by Boston for a year and then re-hired. The team payed millions in fines and had draft picks taken away.
Cheaters in professional or amatuer athletics are a mile wide and an inch deep. That makes them rather pathetic to me, and also makes them lousy role models for the impressionable young kids who watch their games. The fact that you would choose to support, rather than criticize them says as much about your malleable moralityas it does about the cheaters you quoted.
last thought: If you don't like my opinions, then get a life!
Pete Rose said Perry threw a spitter. That’s enough for me.
Perry wrote a book about it titled "Me and the Spitter." It's practically a tutorial on how to throw it and how to stash the K•Y on your person.
Just a bit outside
So without cheating he basically wasn’t worth spit.
What's his surname???
Why he snitch him out?
Gerrit Cole throws a nice one too
Gaylord fastball.
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The spit ball is for pitchers who can't get batters out without cheating