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.
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."
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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..
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.
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?
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!
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.
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!! 😂🤷♀️)
@@nagantm441 I’ve never seen it, or even a replay of it, not saying they don’t but when I was a kid Don Drysdale actually did a commercial for Vitalis hair tonic because it’s not greasy? It was constant in baseball talking about pitchers throwing grease balls, cut balls or scraped with a nail file. I’ve never seen anything like that in today’s game.
Even if Perry was throwing spitballs it took skill and practice to successfully control one. I've read the reason it was banned was injury risk because Carl Mays (a known spitballer, but who liked to throw inside to plate huggers) hit Ray Chapman in the head-the only fatality in baseball. I'm sure there are spitballers carrying the torch in the league today.
true the spit ball was semi-banned after 1920 and that incident, it is likely ray chapman never saw the pitch because it was twilight, mays thru a submarine pitch, and the ball in those days was never replaced meaning it could have been very dark. i would speculate chapman never saw the ball coming thru a ground background.
It was said Mays was a mean SOB-and if anyone crowded the plate he'd throw inside or bean the batter. Pre-game the pitchers would rub tobacco spit, dirt, anything to darken the ball and make it harder to see. My grandpa always told the story about a twilight game in which the pitcher and catcher weren't even throwing the ball as the catcher was popping his glove with his hand. The punchline was when the batter argued to the umpire about one of the 'strikes' being outside.
james robert lol, nice try, i've heard that one before. it's hard to tell what really happened but one account says the ball rolled back to mays who threw to first. and it's been said that when chapman was on the ground and people started to check on him that mays never moved.
Various accounts I've read about Mays stated that he was almost universally disliked by his teammates-or anyone for that matter. Probably would have been a great match for Ty Cobb-if the two didn't kill each other first. That's pretty cold throwing to first and not even caring. Wasn't Mays a veteran of WWI? That might explain some of it.
yep, mays served in world war I, trench warfare was brutal but it's said mays was a mean s.o.b. even before that, a lot of people point to the loss of his father when he was 12, who was apparently a religious disciplinarian, and yeah, i did read the altercation with cobb in 1915, it's said mays threw at cobb in every at bat and cobb threw his bat at mays... he had a reputation as a "head hunter" and probably threw at chapman on purpose that day, there was actually an investigation into chapman's death because of mays reputation. there were also claims mays threw the 1921 world series with the yankees, never proven. it may have been made up because people hated the guy so much, it definitely kept him out of the hof. they don't make 'em like that anymore, and it's probably a good thing. but having said that, you have to walk in his shoes first, life was most definitely tougher in those days. who knows what the guy was suffering from.
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
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.
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."
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.
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.
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”
The old man pitcher Eddie Harris from the movie " Major League" is totally based on Gaylord Perry.
Bob Uecker in the title = like before even watching
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!
Gaylord Perry. My gosh. He and Jim Palmer were my favorites pitchers! Gaylord Perry. My goodness. What a great memory.
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 !
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.
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.
Back when baseball was a fun game to watch.
Too cable baseball,❤️ free tv
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.
RIP Gaylord Perry thanks for the memories 🙏🏻
Perry clearly lying his ass off in this is hilarious!!
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.
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.
Yes, definitely had the hitters guessing. 10w30 or 20w50?
LMAO!!!! Uecker throws a zinger in right at the end!!!
I could listen to Bob call games all day.
We was like a conductor out on the mound with his motions. I miss those days!
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."
Uecker talking about Perry. Classic!
Almost fell off my chair at that last line
Bob Uecker has the best self-effacing humor of any person I recall!
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......
So Gaylord used KY jelly? And he always spit on balls? Lol these jokes write themselves.
I burst out in laughter
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 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.
Bobby U. Riding the pine again this year?? When will they learn! Love ya man!!
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!
“It’s loaded up!”😝
Bob Uecker was smiling here. Later, he stopped doing it and became even funnier.
..... 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...
Bob has the perfect baseball voice for announcing, and I don’t even watch baseball
Sparky Anderson was always saying this guy was throwing a spitter.
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.
Bob Uecker, perhaps the greatest hitter in the history of professional baseball.
He loved the girls!😅
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.
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
My favorite Dodger pitcher was Burt Hooten! And Burt had Bob Shaw’s #!!
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!
RIP Gaylord Perry. A victim of covid. He should still be here.
REST IN PEACE GAYLORD PERRY :'(
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
ITS LOADED UP! he lowkey sounding like an og salesman trying to sneak some magic oilments to a crowd
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.
Bring back the spitball. Let's see how good the hitters really are.
Just WHERE would baseball be without Mr Baseball Bob Uecker???
Wow, my hero geylord Perry
He won his 300th against the Yankees with Seattle in '82.
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.
This video needed more Uecker!
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.
Classic.
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..
It's LOADED UP.
jackie gleason goes smokey and the bandit
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 guy to ask would be his catcher. now whether he would tell you is another question.
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
Perry had a great fastball and pinpoint control.
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh?
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?
The spitter gives the ball a late, break and Bob Shaw needs to keep this in house smh
RIP
So now we know where Bob Menery gets his commentary voice from?
😂 ..."cuz if you go to fix your pant legs, you got 'em" #lol #sneeky
(gotta luv Baseball)
Vaseline ball grounded to short... Harris winds and here's the pitch... KY ball swung on and missed... Long live Harry Doyle
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.
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?
This must be Gerrit Cole's favorite video except he used Spider tack
Hey, isn't that Harry Doyle?
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JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUST a bit outside.
Yes. You can put KY in different places!
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!
FORKBALL MY ASS LMFAO!!
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.
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That name is diabolical
A magician never tells their secrets.. oh wait
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.
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.
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
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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.
Gerrit Cole throws a nice one too
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!! 😂🤷♀️)
Just a bit outside
You don't see them even protesting these pitchers any more. But moisture on the ball maybe helps some but I doubt it.
It does. It gives the pitcher more grip to impart spin.
@@dalethelander3781 I never see a pitcher called out like we used too for spit balls or cutting the ball on sandpaper or a belt buckle.!
They do they check pitcher's gloves hats and hair all the time
@@nagantm441 I’ve never seen it, or even a replay of it, not saying they don’t but when I was a kid Don Drysdale actually did a commercial for Vitalis hair tonic because it’s not greasy? It was constant in baseball talking about pitchers throwing grease balls, cut balls or scraped with a nail file. I’ve never seen anything like that in today’s game.
Why he snitch him out?
What's his surname???
Even if Perry was throwing spitballs it took skill and practice to successfully control one. I've read the reason it was banned was injury risk because Carl Mays (a known spitballer, but who liked to throw inside to plate huggers) hit Ray Chapman in the head-the only fatality in baseball. I'm sure there are spitballers carrying the torch in the league today.
true the spit ball was semi-banned after 1920 and that incident, it is likely ray chapman never saw the pitch because it was twilight, mays thru a submarine pitch, and the ball in those days was never replaced meaning it could have been very dark. i would speculate chapman never saw the ball coming thru a ground background.
It was said Mays was a mean SOB-and if anyone crowded the plate he'd throw inside or bean the batter. Pre-game the pitchers would rub tobacco spit, dirt, anything to darken the ball and make it harder to see. My grandpa always told the story about a twilight game in which the pitcher and catcher weren't even throwing the ball as the catcher was popping his glove with his hand. The punchline was when the batter argued to the umpire about one of the 'strikes' being outside.
james robert lol, nice try, i've heard that one before. it's hard to tell what really happened but one account says the ball rolled back to mays who threw to first. and it's been said that when chapman was on the ground and people started to check on him that mays never moved.
Various accounts I've read about Mays stated that he was almost universally disliked by his teammates-or anyone for that matter. Probably would have been a great match for Ty Cobb-if the two didn't kill each other first. That's pretty cold throwing to first and not even caring. Wasn't Mays a veteran of WWI? That might explain some of it.
yep, mays served in world war I, trench warfare was brutal but it's said mays was a mean s.o.b. even before that, a lot of people point to the loss of his father when he was 12, who was apparently a religious disciplinarian, and yeah, i did read the altercation with cobb in 1915, it's said mays threw at cobb in every at bat and cobb threw his bat at mays... he had a reputation as a "head hunter" and probably threw at chapman on purpose that day, there was actually an investigation into chapman's death because of mays reputation. there were also claims mays threw the 1921 world series with the yankees, never proven. it may have been made up because people hated the guy so much, it definitely kept him out of the hof. they don't make 'em like that anymore, and it's probably a good thing. but having said that, you have to walk in his shoes first, life was most definitely tougher in those days. who knows what the guy was suffering from.
Cheaters are disgusting - it's one of the worst aspects of men.