Spitter : baseball's notorious Gaylord Perry / David Vaught.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaught, David, 1958- author.

Series:

Swaim-Paup sports series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography.

Pitchers (Baseball).

Perry, Gaylord.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Gaylord Jackson Perry was born in 1938 as the younger son of a tobacco sharecropper in Martin County, North Carolina. He and his older brother Jim grew up against a background of backbreaking work six days a week in a community that boasted not a single paved road until the 1950s. Their only relaxation was playing baseball, first with their father and later at school. While both brothers would go on to succeed as pitchers in major league baseball, for Gaylord, success would require a lot of perseverance and an almost equal amount of subterfuge. After a couple of lackluster seasons with the San Francisco Giants, he learned from bullpen-mate Bob Shaw how to throw the illegal spitball. More importantly, he learned to control the tricky pitch and to conceal it from suspicious umpires, opposing managers, and baffled batters. When he finally broke out the spitter in a victory by attrition in a marathon, 32-inning, nine-hour doubleheader against the Mets in May 1964, his destiny was set. The Hall of Famer would go on to a 314-265 win-loss record, with a 3.11 earned-run average and 3,534 career strikeouts, becoming the first pitcher in major league history to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Son of a Sharecropper

1. Farm Life

2. The Legend of Slim Gardner

3. Black Farm Life

4. Bonus Baby

pt. Two In and Out of the Bushes

5. The Long Road Ahead

6. Dark Days in Tacoma

7. A Team and a Town Divided

8. Taking the Plunge

pt. Three A Spitballer's Triumph

9. An Overnight Sensation

10. From Spit to Grease

11. Settled

12. Unsettled

pt. Four Pitcher for Hire

13. Gaylord and Frank

14.1. Pitch So I Can Farm

15. Bound for Glory

16. Fame and Tragedy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vaught, David. Spitter

ISBN:

9781648430640

1648430643

OCLC:

1315574137

Publisher Number:

99992409640