A Giants player accused of cheating is already in the Hall of Fame.
Now, Gaylord Perry says he’d welcome Barry Bonds into Cooperstown, too.
“When you have a player like that, pretty soon you have to forgive him and put him in,” Perry said Wednesday in advance of next week’s announcement regarding the Cooperstown class of 2017.
Perry’s alleged sin was applying foreign substances to baseballs as a right-handed pitcher from 1962-1983. He went 314-265 with a 3.11 ERA and won a Cy Young Award in each league.
Perry made a career out of winking at the rules.