Sentence examples for Gossage from inspiring English sources
In 1984 Gwynn and fellow all-stars Steve Garvey and Rich ("Goose") Gossage led the Padres to their first division title, which they followed with a five-game victory over the Chicago Cubs in the NL Championship Series (NLCS) to earn their first World Series berth.
With the Yankees, he briefly had, in Ron Davis, his own setup man — a reliever who pitches an inning or two and preserves the lead for the closer in the ninth — but Gossage frequently entered games as early as the seventh inning, often with men on base.
(Gossage says, with some justice, that he could have compiled all-universe numbers had he played in the current, namby-pamby era).
When I was a clerk on The Post's sports desk, someone tipped me that Sparky Lyle — months after being named the 1977 Cy Young Award winner — was angry with the Yankees for signing another star closer, Goose Gossage.
My family moved to Kansas in January 1981 — in local time, the first month of the first year after George Brett hit.390 and then homered off Goose Gossage at Yankee Stadium to send the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series.
Gossage came up a pure reliever with the Chicago White Sox.
South of the Sahara, Kenya and Uganda first played for the Gossage Trophy in 1924, and the Darugar Cup was established on the island of Zanzibar.
One works with Ron Guidry (known as Gator), and the other is led by Rich Gossage (known as Goose).
"The Boss wanted to win all 162 games and 30 in spring training," said the former Yankees closer Rich Gossage.
Texas Motor Speedway's president, Eddie Gossage, said that according to statistics he was given, 92 percent of those who commented on the sponsorship on Twitter using the hashtag #NRA500 wrote favorably or were not offended by the N.R.A. involvement in the race.
The library has collected other Off Off Broadway memorabilia, including posters by the artist Kenny Burgess, photographs by James Gossage and papers from Mr. Patrick, but Ms. Dominic's meticulously organized trove solidifies the holdings, said Karen Nickeson, the curator of the theater division.
