Comments on: Pat Perry

By: roccocolavito

roccocolavito — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:35:26 +0000

Pat Perry was once traded for Scott Terry. There’s a poem in there — somewhere.

By: fredbeene

fredbeene — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:57:11 +0000

I recognized every name on the sidebar list, excect this one.
Hoping this was a treasure that i missed growing up in the 70′s, I was dismayed to find this a 91 card. I had long lost my love affair with the cardboard gods by then.

Fun read though.

By: berkowit28

berkowit28 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:43:41 +0000

piehead, I shall certainly be on the lookout for Beyker Fructuoso. AZL Dodgers, rookie league last year. What a name. The surname looks Italian (= “fruitful” in English), the first name – Turkish? But it can’t be – he’s from the Dominican Republic. Just one of those fanciful names. It will be a race he’s bound to lose to see if he can make it up to the major leagues in time for Vin Scully to give us the full derivation of his name (you haven’t lived if you haven’t heard about “Yorvit” 16 times). I don’t suppose there will be any announcer left who will care about such things by the time he makes it up, if he does.

By: lar @ wezen-ball

lar @ wezen-ball — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:08:56 +0000

I found a picture of the back of the card over at mikekenny.blogspot.com ( http://mikekenny.blogspot.com/2009/04/classic-card-of-week_29.html ). It’s really remarkable that they decided to fill in all that space, and that this is the best they could come up with. I like what one of the commentors over there said: “My theory is that the man who wrote the backs of cards for Score in 1991, was also a huge Double-A Buffalo fan and was refused an autograph by Pat Perry eight years earlier.”

I don’t remember that set of Score very well. I guess in 1991 I was more interested in the 40th anniversary set of Topps, and those yellow-bordered Fleer cards. I do remember cards with a lot of text like that, though. I wonder how hard it was to fill in some of those backs, esp. considering that the players with the shorter careers are the ones with the least interesting notes about them. You have to wonder just how many jokes, innuendos, etc got past the editors of that set…

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:41:45 +0000

sansho1: I totally agree. That “At any rate” suggests hours or even days of dispiriting, exhausting, ultimately fruitless introspection in between the end of the first paragraph and the beginning of the second.

By: sansho1

sansho1 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:20:02 +0000

My favorite part of that description is the use of “At any rate”. Not only is it a blatantly unnecessary space-filler of a phrase, it reads as if the writer was shaking himself from the torpor brought on by having to relate the particulars of the career of Pat Perry. Like he was willing himself to continue.

By: piehead

piehead — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:40:36 +0000

I was trying to find information about the 4/8/90 game, but I got sidetracked when I found a minor leaguer named Beyker Fructuoso, who was born that day. He wasn’t very good in the Rookie League this year, but I hope he makes it. We need more Beyker Fructuosos.

By: gedmaniac

gedmaniac — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:27:17 +0000

Good call, piehead. There is one thing you have to watch for with the Dodgers, though. They played the Freeway Series against the Angles before the season. In 1990, it was a game in Anaheim, then two at Dodger Stadium, and the second one WAS a day game, on April 8th. However, with Perry starting that year on the 21-day DL, it’s doubtful he would have been pitching the day before Opening Day. (Oh, and for anyone thinking this might be a Vero Beach game: that tree IS visible at Dodger Stadium, behind the blue wall, to the right of the where the bleachers end behind the right field fence.)

By: johnq11

johnq11 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:57:55 +0000

I think the “Pat Perrys” of the world are interesting characters. On the one hand they’re local legends. In Perry’s home town he probably was a big time athelete and received accolades from his local high school, little league, etc. But on the other hand in the baseball world he’s a relative unknown or nobody.

In retrospect he might have played a minor part in the Cardinals 1985 N.L. pennant. He came up after September 1 and pitched 12.1 innings and had a 0.00 era. He was the winning pitcher in a Sept 16 game of that year and participated in (2) Sept 23, Sept 28th, wins. Who knows, if he pitched poorly in 1 or all 3 of those games maybe it effets the Cardinals chance to win the division. He didn’t play in the ’85 post season.

He got traded from the Cardinals right at the deadline of the 87 season so he never got a chance to pitch in that world series which kind of sucks.

In 1989, his best season, He had a 1.77 Era for the Cubs. He must have gotten hurt because he’s only listed as playing 35 innings until June 16th. He never pitched for the Cubs in the post-season.

By: piehead

piehead — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:44:45 +0000

Perry only pitched in one home day game as a Dodger, so this is from May 22, 1990. He pitched a scoreless inning in an 8-3 loss to the Mets in his first appearance of the year. The Dodgers’ starter from that game is dead, and the guy who finished it was hospitalized for a mental issue last month.

That should be added whenever Score decides to revise Pat Perry’s 1991 card.