Gaylord Jackson Perry was a professional baseball player from the United States. Gaylord Perry was born in Williamston, North Carolina, and was named after his father’s close friend who died while having his teeth extracted.
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Gaylord Perry, died Thursday, December 1 2022, of natural causes, according to Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler. He was 84 at the time.
From 1962 to 1983, he was a right-handed pitcher for eight different teams in Major League Baseball.
Perry had a 22-year baseball career with 314 wins, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average. In 1991, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his third year of eligibility.
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Perry, a five-time All-Star, was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues, winning the American League in 1972 with the Cleveland Indians and the National League in 1978 with the San Diego Padres.
His Cy Young Award announcement came just as he turned 40, making him the oldest pitcher to win the award, a record that stood for 26 years.
He is also notable for being part of the second-winningest brother combination in baseball history, along with his brother Jim Perry, trailing only the knuckleball-throwing brothers Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro.
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