Goose Gossage

The second MLB pitcher to record 300 saves, Rich “Goose” Gossage pitched in 1,002 games, finished 681 of them and earned 310 career saves.
Read More >The second MLB pitcher to record 300 saves, Rich “Goose” Gossage pitched in 1,002 games, finished 681 of them and earned 310 career saves.
Read More >The first skipper of the Yankees, Clark Griffith won 237-games and is the only person to serve 20+ years as an MLB player, manager, and owner.
Read More >After banning the spitter in 1920, MLB grandfathered in 17 men allowed to throw it until retirement. Burleigh Grimes was the last legal spitballer.
Read More >The American League leader in strikeouts in each of his first seven seasons, Lefty Grove recorded the AL’s lowest ERA a record nine times.
Read More >Jesse Haines pitched in four World Series winning two spanning from 1926-1934. He was in the inaugural class for the Cardinals Hall of Fame.
Read More >When he retired Red Faber was atop the Chicago White Sox all-time leaderboard for games, starts, wins, complete games and innings pitched.
Read More >In 1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson became the first 1st-ballot HoFers since Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, & Walter Johnson.
Read More >Rollie Fingers was a three-time World Series Champion, a 7-time All Star, a four-time Rolaids Relief Man of the Year & 1981’s Cy Young and MVP.
Read More >A ten-time All Star and six-time World Series champ, Whitey Ford was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1974, his second year on the writers’ ballot.
Read More >Hall of Fame left-hander Bill Foster was a two-time All Star and two-time Negro League Champion who compiled a 143-69 lifetime record.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954