Spitter : baseball's notorious Gaylord Perry /
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 relaxat...
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| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Swaim-Paup sports series.
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Table of Contents:
- Son of a Sharecropper
- Farm Life
- The Legend of Slim Gardner
- Black Farm Life
- Bonus Baby
- In and Out of the Bushes
- The Long Road Ahead
- Dark Days in Tacoma
- A Team and a Town Divided
- Taking the Plunge
- A Spitballer's Triumph
- An Overnight Sensation
- From Spit to Grease
- Settled
- Unsettled
- Pitcher for Hire
- Gaylord and Frank
- I Pitch So I Can Farm
- Bound for Glory
- Fame and Tragedy
- Epilogue.