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Article: Gossage, Dick Williams inducted into Hall of Fame
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- July 28, 2008
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Even after his induction was complete and the crowd had wandered off, Rich "Goose" Gossage was still trying to come to grips with his new status as a Hall of Famer.
"I still have to pinch myself to realize that I've had the type of career I've had," said Gossage, after becoming just the fifth reliever enshrined at Cooperstown.
"My whole career is kind of a storybook. If I had to write a script, I wouldn't change a thing," said Gossage, who spent 22 years as one of baseball's most menacing and dominating relief pitchers.
Gossage was inducted Sunday, along with Dick Williams _ one of Gossage's former managers _ who managed six teams in a 21-year ...