Blanche Manning Perry was the wife of Gaylord Jackson Perry a professional baseball player from the United States. Perry and Blanche had four children: three daughters and one son.
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Blanche Manning Perry, Perry’s wife, was killed on September 11, 1987, when a car ran a stop sign and hit her car broadside on U.S. Route 27 in Lake Wales, Florida.
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.
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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.
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.
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