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Article: FROM ALL-STAR RELIEVER TO HALL OF FAMER; GOOSE GOSSAGE INDUCTED INTO COOPERSTOWN BEFORE 14,000 MOSTLY YANKEE FANS.(Sports)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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Byline: Matt Michael Staff writer
Cooperstown --It was easy to forget Sunday, when Rich "Goose" Gossage officially became a Hall of Famer. But there was a time when New York Yankees fans greeted reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage with "Boooooo" instead of "Goooooose."
That was early in the 1978 season, when Gossage was the Yankees' latest free agent prize (six years, $2.8 million) who had displaced popular Sparky Lyle -- the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner -- as New York's closer. Like most of his teammates, Gossage got off to a rough start in 1978 and he heard it from the Yankees' faithful.
He heard it from his teammates, too. In one ...
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