FORMER RED SOX CATCHER RUSS GIBSON DIES (AP)
Source: Yahoo Sports [07/29/2008]
Russ Gibson, a catcher on the Boston Red Sox team that went to the 1967 World Series, has died. He was 69. He died Sunday after a long illness, the Red Sox said. On the same day that Gibson died in Swansea, Mass., Dick Williams, the manager of that team, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Gibson was a rookie on the 1967 team whose season was called the "Impossible Dream," having reached the...
FORMER BOSOX CATCHER GIBSON DIES AT 69
Source: Fox Sports [07/29/2008]
Russ Gibson, a catcher on the Boston Red Sox team that went to the 1967 World Series, has died. He was 69. He died Sunday after a long illness, the Red Sox said. On the same day that Gibson died in Swansea, Mass., Dick Williams, the manager of that team, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Gibson was a rookie on the 1967 team whose season was called the "Impossible Dream," having reached the World Series after finishing ninth in the 10-team AL in 1966.
GOOSE GOSSAGE, DICK WILLIAMS ENTER HALL
Source: SportingNews [07/27/2008]
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- For more than two decades, Rich "Goose" Gossage unnerved batters as one of...
GOSSAGE, DICK WILLIAMS INDUCTED INTO HALL
Source: Fox Sports [07/27/2008]
Rich "Goose" Gossage has been inducted into the Hall of Fame after a career of more than two decades in which he was one of baseball's most menacing relievers. Gossage was enshrined Sunday with former manager Dick Williams, who won World Series titles in 1972 and 1973 with Oakland. He also took Boston and San Diego to the World Series. Gossage was a nine-time All-Star. He joins Bruce Sutter, Hoyt Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley as the only relievers in Cooperstown.
CASHMAN NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT WASHBURN
Source: ESPN [07/27/2008]
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, in Cooperstown to watch the induction ceremonies for Goose Gossage and Dick Williams, didn't sound like a man who's optimistic of making another significant trad...