Career
The right-handed pitcher appeared in Major League Baseball for the full 1961 season (although he was sidelined by a sore arm for part of the campaign), along with partial seasons in 1959 and 1962. He stood 6 feet (18 m) tall and weighed 173 pounds (78 kilograms) during his active career. Nunn was nicknamed "Perry" by his teammates due to his pleasant singing voice.
Nunn entered baseball in 1954 after signing with the Saint Louis Cardinals, and was very successful at the minor league level
In 1960, he posted a 1.99 earned run average in the Triple-A International League and overall had a career minor-league European Research Area of 3.38 in 1,463 innings pitched. He was a teammate (and, briefly, roommate) of Jim Brosnan on the 1959 Cardinals and 1961 Cincinnati Reds, and appears in Brosnan"s memoirs The Long Season and Pennant Race.
He spent spring training with the 1962 New York Mets — the inaugural season for that expansion team — but was returned to the Reds" organization before the regular season began.