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Perry, a two-time Cy Young Award winner (one of 6 players to win the Cy Young in both leagues), played for 9 teams in his 22 year career and the 15th member of the elite 300 win club with 314 career wins, and accumulating over 3000 strikeouts.
Probably one of the craftiest and more controversial pitchers of his era, Perry was well remembered for his pitching style and revolutionizing the spitball and slightly less well known, the puff ball. Perry was no stranger to umpires inspecting the mound during a game, he not only used spit or whatever he could apply to the ball, Perry maintained a fondness for Vaseline and was disappointingly refused an endorsement deal from Vaseline when they responded: "We soothe babies' backsides, not baseballs." It wasn’t until his 21st season in 1982 that he was ejected from a game for the illegal practice of applying agents to his baseballs. He even titled his 1974 autobiography, Me and the Spitter.
Perry was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.
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