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Article: `GOOSE' GOSSAGE.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 7, 1999
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Byline: Clay Latimer News Staff Writer
With his sullen stare and menacing Fu Manchu mustache, Richard ``Goose'' Gossage was the definition of intimidation in the 1970s and '80s.
But those were merely background props.
What really terrorized major league hitters was Gossage's 95-mph fastball, which was virtually unhittable during his peak years.
Gossage, a Colorado Springs Wasson High graduate, pitched in 1,002 games - third on the all-time list when he retired in 1995 - with 310 saves, a 124-107 record, 1,502 strikeouts and a 3.01 earned-run average. He took the mound in eight World Series games, nine All-Star games and was the ...