The Goose Is Loose: An Autobiography - Rilegato

Gossage, Goose; Pate, Russ

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ISBN 10: 0345430689 ISBN 13: 9780345430687

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 2000

Riassunto

One of major league baseball's most acclaimed relief pitchers shares his memories of his twentytwoyear career in the big leagues, offering anecdotes about the bullpen, his adventures on and off the field, and the colorful players, coaches, owners, and fans he encountered along the way.

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L'autore

Russ Pate is a Dallas-based writer and author who has previously collaborated with Cynthia Cooper, Mike Singletary, Bob Watson, Robert Landers, and Doug Sanders.

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ll fan knows Goose Gossage as one of the great relief pitchers of all time. But in his amazingly rich memoir, Gossage reveals that he is also one of the best--and funniest--writers in sports. Wisecracking, warmhearted, endlessly entertaining, Gossage has a million hilarious stories, and in The Goose Is Loose he tells them all with incomparable wit and style.

Goose Gossage's major league career commenced inauspiciously in 1972 when the skinny twenty-year-old kid from Colorado nearly decapitated Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks. Twenty-two years later, the Goose--a veteran of nine ball clubs--had become a legend himself: a dominating relief pitcher whose live fastball registered at the upper limit of the radar gun. But Goose also emerged as a genuine character with his trademark Fu Manchu mustache, unflinching stare, and the ecstatic shouts of "GOOOOOOSE!" that greeted him whenever he took the mound.

Now Gossage recounts the highs and lows of those twenty-two incredibl

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345430689
• ISBN 13: 9780345430687
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 342