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With his supersize Fu Manchu mustache and seething scowl, former major league baseball pitcher Richard (Goose) Gossage scared the stirrups off hitters 30 years ago. Now 54, the Goose is firing 100 m.p.h. fastballs at a different set of heads: baseball writers who haven't voted him into the Hall of Fame. "I'll take on any writer, anywhere, on any show, and I will bury him," Gossage said in January after learning that Bruce Sutter, a star from the same era, got the Hall call. Gossage is still ticked. "These young writers have no clue," he told TIME. "They...
Gossage, who was a relief pitcher, is a victim of baseball's battle of the ages. Today's game is more specialized. In Gossage's era, relief pitchers often threw three innings to close out a game and get credited with a "save." Says the Goose: "I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them." Now closers get those all-important saves by pitching a single inning or less. So they are able to pitch in more games and build their statistics. Gossage isn't the only former big leaguer with...
...Brown’s most striking advantage was a handle on what had made him a college pitcher in the first place: the submarine delivery...
Meanwhile, the Red Sox were at home for October’s American League Division Series with Chicago. On their roster was a 36-year old veteran pitcher named Mike Myers who, like Brown, threw from the rare “submarine” arm slot...
...completely different pitcher,” Brown says...