Reminds me of 1970s ace pitcher for the Oakland A’s, Vida Blue. One time in… I think it was '72… he got fined $250 for some harsh behavior or comment, maybe it was to the umpire or an opposing player. Already a superstar, Vida Blue was an aggressive competitor, known for speaking his mind, took no shit from anybody.
Anyway, he paid it all in quarters, dimes and nickels. Asked about this at the time, he replied - “I wanted to pay it all in pennies, but they’re hard to come by”.
I wish I could have seen his face when he committed to the prankster bit. “Oh, you wanna fine me, motherfuckers? I’m gonna make even that a hassle for ya.”
The man was a legend. A monster on the mound, too, in '71 he won both the AL Cy Young and MVP.
The thing about Perry is that everyone always suspected the ball had funny stuff even when there was nothing on it that day, and Perry stoked that feeling, was a GOAT at playing mind games with opposing batters, keeping them off-balance, never knowing if it was coming or not.
Reminds me of 1970s ace pitcher for the Oakland A’s, Vida Blue. One time in… I think it was '72… he got fined $250 for some harsh behavior or comment, maybe it was to the umpire or an opposing player. Already a superstar, Vida Blue was an aggressive competitor, known for speaking his mind, took no shit from anybody.
Anyway, he paid it all in quarters, dimes and nickels. Asked about this at the time, he replied - “I wanted to pay it all in pennies, but they’re hard to come by”.
I wish I could have seen his face when he committed to the prankster bit. “Oh, you wanna fine me, motherfuckers? I’m gonna make even that a hassle for ya.”
The man was a legend. A monster on the mound, too, in '71 he won both the AL Cy Young and MVP.
If he had paid all in pennies it’d actually be easier to count because you can just weigh it and assume a value.
With a random mix of coins that now becomes near impossible without sorting through every single coin…
They could have just used an automatic coin sorter, though.
Yeah, those have been around since at least the 1940s, if not before.
Was he the guy who was always getting caught putting vaseline on the ball?
Oh, no, that was Gaylord Perry:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Perry
The thing about Perry is that everyone always suspected the ball had funny stuff even when there was nothing on it that day, and Perry stoked that feeling, was a GOAT at playing mind games with opposing batters, keeping them off-balance, never knowing if it was coming or not.