Single signed baseball by former San Francisco Giants Hall of Fame pitcher...Gaylord Perry.

Gaylord began his career in 1962 with the San Francisco Giants.  He played for the Giants 1962-71, Cleveland Indians 1972-75, Texas Rangers 1975-77, 1980, San Diego Padres 1978-79, New York Yankees 1980, Atlanta Braves 1981, Seattle Mariners 1982-83 and Kansas City Royals 1983.  Gaylord was named to 5 All-Star teams, won the Cy Young Award in both leagues...with the Cleveland Indians in 1972 and with the San Diego Padres in 1978, threw a no-hitter, won 314 career games as a pitcher and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.  Gaylord signed the sweet spot of this ONL Leonard S. Coleman baseball with a blue ballpoint pen and also inscribed on the ball, "314 W's", to note his accomplishment.  Gaylord originally signed this baseball on Sunday August 13, 2000.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

Gaylord Jackson Perry (born September 15, 1938 in Williamston, North Carolina) is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Notorious for doctoring baseballs (throwing a spitball), Perry won 314 games over a 22-year career starting in 1962. A five-time All-Star, he was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in each league, winning it in 1972 with the Cleveland Indians and in 1978 with the San Diego Padres. He is also distinguished, along with his brother Jim, for being the second-winningest brother combination in baseball history--second only to the knuckleballing Niekro brothers, Phil and Joe. While pitching for the Seattle Mariners, Perry defeated the New York Yankees on May 6, 1982 to become the fifteenth member of the 300 win club for pitchers, but the first since Early Wynn did it in 1963. In 1983, he became the third pitcher in the same year to surpass longtime strikeout king Walter Johnson's record of 3,509 strikeouts. Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan were the others.

Despite Perry's notoriety for doctoring baseballs--he even went so far as to title his autobiography Me and the Spitter--(co-authored by Cleveland baseball newspaper writer Bob Sudyk) he wouldn't be ejected for the illegal practice until August 23, 1982, in his 21st season in the majors. Perry also reportedly approached the makers of Vaseline about endorsing the product and was allegedly rebuffed with a one-line postcard reading, "We soothe babies' backsides, not baseballs." Like most pitchers, Perry was not renowned for his hitting ability, and in his sophomore season of 1963, he is said to have joked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, just minutes after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first, and only, home run of his career.^[1]

Perry retired in 1983 after pitching for eight teams (the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals).

Despite his admission of illegal pitches, he was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991 and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 1999, The Sporting News placed him on their list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players at number 97.

On July 23, 2005, the San Francisco Giants retired his uniform number 36.

• Perry was part of a trade where San Diego acquired him from Texas before the 1978 season in exchange for middle reliever Dave Tomlin and $125,000. The 39-year-old Perry wound up winning the Cy Young Award going 21-6 for San Diego while the 29-year-old Tomlin never pitched for Texas and pitched barely 150 innings the rest of his career.

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