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RICH `GOOSE' GOSSAGE: Appeared on Baseball Digest Cover 22 Years Ago.(player for the New York Yankees)(Brief Article)
AFTER BACK-TO-BACK WORLD SERIES TITLES IN 1977 and 1978, the New York Yankees were favored to repeat as A.L champions in '79 behind a solid offensive club, pitching depth in the starting corps and the game's top reliever in Rich Gossage.
Coming off a season in which he won 10 games, with a league-leading 27 saves and a 2.01 ERA. Gossage. 28, was reaching his peak as a major league closer and the Yankees' chances for a third World Series title looked good.
But misfortune struck the club on April 19, 1979 when, in a clubhouse fracas with Cliff Johnson, Gossage lost his balance in the scrap and Johnson fell on top of the reliever's right hand, tearing the ulnar collateral ligament in his thumb. The injury required surgery and put Gossage on the DL for 90 days and the Yankees' pennant hopes to rest.
In '79, Gossage appeared in only 36 games, finishing with a-5-3 record with 18 saves and a 2.64 ERA while the Yankees finished at 89-71, thirteen and a haft games behind the Baltimore Orioles.
The following season, Gossage returned to form and helped lead the Yankees to the 1980 ALCS with a league-leading 33 saves, six wins and a 2.27 ERA.
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