Gaylord Perry has a Hall of Fame worthy resume. Despite his .542 winning percentage and other iffy statistics, Perry won 314 games, which ordinarily would be enough for a plaque. However, Perry has admitted to using an illegal spitball, which not only made him a dirty cheater and a man not deserving of fame, but it also peppered his statistics. Perry said that in 1964, "I had to use it or get out of baseball. That's how bad I was going." It's true - in 1962 and 1963, Perry went 4-7 for great Giants teams with a 4.46 ERA. Suddenly, he put up a 2.75 ERA in 1964 and wound up in Cooperstown. Perry never denied throwing the spitball. He even wrote a book about it called Me and the Spitter. But the "spitter" is an ILLEGAL pitch. It was outlawed almost 20 years before he was born and over 40 years before he started pitching in the Big Leagues. Therefore, any pitcher who uses it is none other than a cheater. A final word: CHEATERS DO NOT BELONG IN COOPERSTOWN.
My opinion: Gaylord Perry is not a Hall of Famer.
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