Portland Observer, April 22,1982 Page 9
Jun « 20, 1969 —Gaylord Parry gets the w ip e fro m u m p Chris Paia-
koudas.
1961 — Forkball fo rm fo r th a A tlan ta Braves,
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Gaylord Perry still chasing records
G aylord P erry , signed as a free
agent by the M arin e rs on M arch
5th, is closing in on several baseball
milestones as he enters his 20th big
league season. He is three wins away
from becoming just the I Sth pitcher
in m ajo r league history to record
300 lifetime victories.
O n ly seven o f the current 300-
game winners won all their games
a fte r the turn o f the cen tury, the
most recent to reach the mark being
Early Wynn, who picked up number
300 in I9 6 3 fo r the C leveland In
dians.
Perry is just >72 from tying the
a ll-tim e strikeou t record held by
W a lte r Johnson (3 ,5 0 8 ). H e has
fanned 200 or more batters in a sea
son eight times but has never led the
league. He has fanned ten or more
batters in a game 39 times, including
a single-game high o f 15. H e has
struck out 14 in a game twice.
Other near records held by Perry
are: Innings, 7,h (4 ,9 2 9 ); games
started, 5th (628); games pitched,
17th (715); shutouts, tie fo r 12th
(5 2 ). In the P o s t-W a r era (1946-
1981, he ranks second in wins (297)
and 1st in strikeouts (3,336). In the
Post-Expansion era (19 61 -8 1) he
ranks first in wins (297) and strike
outs (3,336) and 8th in earned run
average (2.99). In the last ten years
(1972-1981) he ranks 4th in wins
(163), 6th in strikeouts (1,730) and
8th in ERA (3.01).
A t 43 Perry is the oldest active
player in the m ajo r leagues. He is
the only pitcher to win the Cy
Young Aw ard in both leagues. He
won the American League honor in
1972 when he was 24-16 with Cleve
lan d, and the N a tio n a l League
award in 1978 when he was 21-6
with the San Diego Padres.
D u ring the 1981 season, Perry
registered an 8-9 record with the A t
lanta Braves.
M e and the S piller: M l e i being
accused o f throwing doctored base
balls, spitballs, Slippery E lm and
Vaseline pitches and so on, Gaylord
com bined w ith then C leveland
sportswriter Bob Sudyk in 1974 to
write M e and the Spiller—A n A uto
biographical Confession. The book
included an admission from Perry
that he did indeed throw some ille
gal pitches when he was struggling
to establish himself with the Giants
in 1964. Last year, the “ p u ffb a ll”
was ruled illegal by N .L . President
Chub Feeney; Gaylord was accused
o f massaging the ball with the resin
bag so that a cloud o f smoke
emerged as the pitch was delivered.
Sport Talk
by Ron Sykes, Sports Editor
Kansas C ity’s C liff Robinson was
nicknam ed “ Pine S o l” in grade
school because he spent so much
time on the bench, riding the pines.
Charles Bradley, Boston's fabu
lously muscled 6-5 rookie guard, has
been nicknamed “ Baby Daw kins”
by teammates who feel his strength,
jumping ability and fancy dunks are
worthy o f Philadelphia’s 6-11 D a r
ryl Dawkins.
Greg Ballard, ex-U . o f O . great,
in his fifth pro season has emerged
as a key palyer fo r the p la y o ff-
bound Washington Bullets. Bullard
has carried the load throughout the
’8 1-’82 season and if the Bullets are
to do everything in post-season play
the 6-7 Ballard must come through.
Maurice Lucas on Maurice Lucas:
“ I'd like to make it clear that I play
an intellig en t gam e. I d o n ’ t just
bump people around and push
folks. I can do mostly anything on
the court. I always try to study my
opponent. I try to be smarter than
the other guy.”
Lucas remains in fact still one o f
the best power forwards in the NBA
today. The 6-9 Lucas had another
good year averaging 18.5 points per
game and nine rebounds.
W h ile P o rtla n d ’ s T ra ilb la ze rs
constantly cry for a good power for
ward and a good big man one just
has to wonder what things would
have been like this year with Lucas
and Moses M a lo n e . For sure the
reason w o u ld n ’ t now be over for
Blazer fans.
Reggie S m ith , 6-3 guard o f the
New Y o rk N icks, played in his
eight-hundredth consecutive game
last January against Chicago. Smith
now needs fo r ty -fo u r m okre to
break the record currently held by
Johnny Kerr. I f he plays in every
game this season he’ ll end up with
841, three short o f the record.
The college d ra ft is believed by
some to be the foundation for build
ing a successful franchise. Case in
point are the Dallas Mavericks and
D e tro it Pistons. Rookies Isaiah
Thom as and K elly T rip u ck a have
helped the Pistons attain respecta
bility both on the flo o r and at the
gate. W hile in Dallas, a rookie has
led the Mavericks in scoring in nine
teen o f their first thirty games.
M a rk A g u irre , 6-7 ex-D e P a u l
great, was the leader fifteen times
before suffering a broken foot. Jay
Vincent, another 6-7 Michigan State
product replaced Aguirre in the start
ing line-up and led the team an addi
tional ten times.
Aguirre and Vincent helped D al
las improve their record from 18 wins
to a 28-53 record today. Dallas has
shown good im provem ent for a
second year expansion team . D e
troit, led by the two rookies, moved
from the cellar last year to third in
the central division with a 38-42 rec
ord and was in a dog fight for the
last playoff spot in the Eastern Con
ference.
Many believe only the mid-season
in ju ry to Thomas kept the Pistt ns
out o f post-season play.
When Georgetown returned home
from that loss to North Carolina in
the N C A A title game, Georgetown
supporters tried to cheer up Fred
Brown, who mistook N orth C aro
lina’s Jame Worthy for a teammate
and in a horrifying m is-fire tossed
his team ’s last chance away— with
the follow ing sigh: “ Freddie, you
helped us get there. W e know you
care.” That had to mean something
to the young man.
W ith all the talk these days o f
how freely big money can be o b
tained in am ateur track, here’s an
item from the Fort W orth Telegram
on the Texas relays: C a rl Lew is,
H o u s to n ’ s in elig ib le N C A A 100-
meter and long jum p champion, was
here to watch his sister perform, but
he didn’t compete. His asking price
was too high— $10,000. W ith money
like that floating around, one has to
wonder if Reynolds Nchemiah can
afford to take a pay cut to play pro
fessional football.
And while on the subject o f Ne-
hemiah and professional fo o td all,
rem em ber you heard it first here
when we flatly predicted that Nehe-
miah would sign a forty-niner con
tract. R eliable sources in the Bay
area told us as early as M arch 5th
that Reynolds and the Forty-niners
were only a heart beat away.
Skeets became the highest paid
free agent ever to sign an N F L con
tra c t. H e rep orted ly received
$500,000 with $100,000 bonus just
to sign his name.
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