Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, dead at 84, was a spitball-throwing ‘outlaw in strictest sense of the word’

Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry died Thursday at age 84 of natural causes at his Gaffney, S.C., home. Perry was a 314-game winner from 1962-83 for eight clubs, four of them coming late into the 1980 season. He won 20 games three times, went to five All-Star Games and was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young in both leagues. He was introduced to the spitball in 1964 from teammate Bob Shaw. In his later years, he publicly claimed that had he stopped throwing spitters and greaseballs, which wasn't true. Rod Carew was one of the few players to hit his spitballs.