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Anyone voting against Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens on their Hall of Fame ballot should be forced to watch this game from 1982 in which Gaylord Perry scores his 300th victory. Perry, an admitted spit-baller (his 1976 autobiography was called "Me and the Spitter"), goes through an impression of a third base coach's steal signs before each pitch as he psyches out hitters and umpires both.

Perry was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991 (Gene Mauch once joked that "He should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of K-Y jelly attached to his plaque") after winning 314 games and a Cy Young Award in each league. Ironically, on the MLB Network rebroadcast of this classic game, we see steroid news and notes scrolling on bottom-of-the-screen ticker.

Perry's antics were cute, fun and probably good for baseball. He was a star attraction and never took the issue or himself too seriously. But he did flaunt the rules and gain a distinct advantage over the competition, which makes one wonder how Hall of Fame voters today can rank one form of cheating over another.

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