SAN FRANCISCO -- Gaylord Perry's AT&T Park statue dedication Saturday was remarkably free of talk about foreign substances until the Hall of Fame pitcher closed the ceremony by instructing the assembled gathering to look for a surprise gift underneath their seats.
In the perfect ending to a grand affair for Perry, everyone in the audience reached under their chairs to discover a jar of Vaseline taped to the bottom."I have no idea how that got there," Perry said with a wry smirk.It's the slippery mystery that the workhorse right-hander continued to massage, even as he became the fifth Giants Hall of Fame player to receive a larger-than-life statue outside of the ballpark.