Background
Perry, the son of former Holy Cross athletic director Ron S. Perry, was a high school star at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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Perry, the son of former Holy Cross athletic director Ron S. Perry, was a high school star at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
He is known particularly for his standout college career at Holy Cross. While there, Perry set a Massachusetts state scoring record with 2,481 points in his career, averaging 35 points per game as a senior. He followed in his father"s footsteps, playing both basketball and baseball at Holy Cross.
As a freshman shooting guard for the Crusaders, Perry led all freshmen nationally in scoring, netting 23 points per game.
Over the course of his four-year career, Perry set the school scoring record with 2,524 points (232 per game). In addition to his basketball career, Perry also excelled as a baseball player for the Crusaders at shortstop.
He was inducted into the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 1996. Following his graduatiuon from Holy Cross, perry was drafted by both the Chicago White Sox in the 1980 Major League Baseball Draft and by the Boston Celtics in the third round (54th pick overall) of the 1980 National Basketball Association draft.
After failiing to make the Celtics" roster, Perry opted to try his hand at baseball, playing for the White Sox" Associate of Arts affiliate in Glens Falls, New New York
He hit.260 in his two seasons with the club