Player #90B: Leon A. "Goose" Goslin. Left fielder for the Washington Senators in 1921-1930, 1933, and 1938. 2,735 hits and 248 home runs in 18 MLB seasons. 1936 All-Star. 1924 and 1935 World Series champion. 1928 AL batting champion. 1924 AL RBI leader. 1968 inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame. He drove in the game-winning, walk-off run to win the 1935 World Series for the Detroit Tigers. With Gehringer and Greenberg, was one of the Detroit "G-Men". In 1936 he had an inside-the-park HR when both outfielders (Joe DiMaggio and Myril Hoag) collided and were knocked unconscious. He had one of his best seasons for the WS-winning Washington Senators in 1924 as he posted a .421 OBP with 100 runs scored and 129 RBIs in 674 plate appearances.
Deveaux describes Goslin's less-than-ideal young ways: The sensation of the (1922) spring, however, was the young slugger, Goose Goslin. His defense was still suspect at this point in his career, but he was knocking the ball around with authority against big-league pitchers. Goslin had an abundance of confidence. The previous September, when he had made his big-league debut, he had hit the ball hard off of White Sox ace Red Faber. Faber was completing a 25-win season, the third of his career with more than 20 wins up to that point, and on his way to the Hall of Fame. After Goslin scored and got back to the bench, Joe Judge remarked that he never thought he would have seen the day the Nats would have a healthy lead against Red Faber. Goslin, on the other hand, said he doubted this Faber fellow was actually any good at all.
Cockiness was already getting Goslin, who loved to live the good life, in trouble. He got fined before he ever got paid. One night, two weeks into 1922 spring training, he stayed up and won big money gambling. He went directly from the craps table to the breakfast table, only to run into his furious manager, Clyde Milan. Escorted to his room, Goslin was told to rest and that Milan would return to talk to him in an hour. When Milan showed up again, he found nothing but an open window. Nevertheless, Goslin ended up being the club's only .300 hitter, as 1922 unfolded into a poor year for the Nationals. (The Washington Senators by Tom Deveaux.)
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01-13-2023, 04:10 AM
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