American baseball player Gaylord Jackson Perry competed from September 15, 1938, to December 1, 2022.
He pitched right-handed in Major League Baseball for eight different teams between 1962 and 1983. Over the course of a 22-year baseball career, Perry amassed 314 victories, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average. He was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.
Did Gaylord Perry win a World Series?
The Giants retired Perry’s uniform number 36 on July 23, 2005. On March 9, 2009, Perry was admitted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. On April 9, 2011, Perry received the same World Series ring as fellow legendary San Francisco Giants players Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, and Willie Mays at AT&T Park. He was given another distinction on April 7, 2013, when Mays and Juan Marichal received a 2012 World Series ring, and on April 18, 2015, when McCovey, Cepeda, Mays, and Marichal received a 2014 World Series ring.
Before their 2015 Opening Day game, the Indians invited Perry to throw out the opening pitch in a special ceremony. Outside of AT&T Park, on August 13, 2016, the Giants unveiled a bronze statue of Perry at the intersection of Second and King Streets.
