ProRodeo Sports News - April 14, 2023

PRO RODEO HALL OF FAME

Reliever Rich “Goose” Gossage fires a pitch during his playing days with the New York Yankees. The Colorado Springs, Colo., native played 22 years in Major League Baseball and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.

HOF pitcher Gossage to speak at ProRodeo Hall of Fame on May 19 Goose Speaks

BY TRACY RENCK G rowing up in Colorado Springs, Colo., Rich “Goose” Gossage acknowledged he had a liking for the Western lifestyle. However, baseball was his niche. Gossage graduated from Wasson High School in 1970 in Colorado Springs, where he played basketball and baseball and was inducted into the high school’s “Wall of Fame”. Gossage then went on to play 22 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1972 to 1994. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. In the 1970s and 80s, Gossage became a dominant reliever with his trademark moustache, menacing glare and exploding fastball. Gossage still never lost his love for the western way of life and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame is hosting a fundraising event with Gossage as the headliner. The event dubbed “An Evening with Goose” will feature a night of storytelling, an opportunity for Q&A and conversation with the baseball legend. The event will be held on Friday, May 19 at the Hall of Fame at 6 p.m. (MT) in Colorado Springs. “I was born and raised in Colorado,” Gossage said. “My family goes back to somewhere in the late 1800s. David Allen (of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation)

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