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Gaylord Perry comments on the HOF



We almost missed this one. Finding Baseball Hall of Fame players who rally against the steroids era superstars entering Cooperstown is easy. We have written about it here, and the internet is littered with stories about it. However, we found something interesting on the pennlive.com Sports section whereby Gaylord Perry said he would honor those players should they got in. He added that he believed that some of them would get in; but that is as much as we would learn from the former master of the “Spitball”.


          Perry never said (or at least the piece didn’t) whether he thought they should be in; just that he would “honor” them. At the very least, we can assume he means that he won’t publically throw a hissy fit (as we would expect many of the HOFers would do) should  This could be because he legitimately thinks that, or because he knows he is the one player who might be publically ridiculed if he did.

          Actually his name comes up a lot lately. Countless writers and bloggers will talk about the hypocrisy of Baseball’s Hall of Fame for excluding the PED users and including Perry; who was known for using the illegal Spitball, which involved the doctoring of a ball to make the pitch move atypically. He was only caught once, but did admit to using it often; hence the confusion as to what is “acceptable” cheating in MLB, and what isn’t it.

          Come to think of it; is there any other Hall of Famer you would rather hear from?

         
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