Spitter: Baseball's Notorious Gaylord Perry

by David Vaught

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Finalist for the 2023 CASEY Award

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648430643
• ISBN13: 9781648430640
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.0" x 9.8"