Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (inducted in 1991) who won 314 games and pitched for 8 teams, chiefly with the San Francisco Giants. He is best known for throwing spitballs, an illegal pitch doctored with foreign substances.
I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. - Gaylord Perry
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
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Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.