KNBR Conversation with Gaylord Perry
An edited transcript of an interview with former Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry, who is being honored with a statue at AT&T Park:
Were you able to consult on the statue?
Just to mess with people, did you put some Vaseline in the back pocket?
Tell us about when you got the call, when they told you that you were getting a statue.
What do the Giants mean to you?
What did that Giants uniform mean to you?
[...] it’s always been the Giants.
Do you have any regrets about not capturing that flag with five Hall of Famers?
Six different times you pitched more than 300 innings in a season.
To you, what’s the biggest difference between you pitching 300 innings six times and these days, guys get a parade for pitching 200 innings.
Why are guys so much softer in terms of innings pitched nowadays?
When I was playing, we had 10 pitchers on the team — four starters, six in the bullpen — and I spent some time in the bullpen, but I wasn’t too good, so I became a starter.
[...] I always wanted to be a starter, so it worked out pretty well for me.
After you threw so many innings, how did you feel afterward?