Object Details
- Associated Name
- Gossage, Rich “Goose”
- New York Yankees
- Wilson Sporting Goods Company
- Description
- Jersey worn by New York Yankees relief pitcher Goose Gossage during the 1983 season.
- Right-handed relief pitcher Richard Goose Gossage played Major League baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1972-1976,) Pittsburgh Pirates (1977,) New York Yankees (1978-1983, 1989) San Diego Padres (1984-1987,) Chicago Cubs (1988,) Texas Rangers (1991,) Oakland Athletics (1992-1993,) and Seattle Mariners (1994.) In 1990 the mustachioed closer threw for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB.)
- The fastball specialist helped define the modern baseball's closer role, being put into a game during the later innings to preserve a lead. A 9-time All-Star, Gossage led the American League in saves three times, finishing his career with 310. He amassed 1,502 strikeouts in the Majors, with a lifetime 3.01 earned run average and 124-107 win-loss record. The Goose would win a world-series in 1978 with the Yankees.
- During his singular season in the NPB, Gossage had eight saves and 40 strikeouts.
- Gossage was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 and enshrined in Yankee Stadium's Monument Park in 2014.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1983
- ID Number
- 2017.0334.12
- catalog number
- 2017.0334.12
- accession number
- 2017.0334
- Object Name
- jersey, baseball
- baseball jersey
- shirt
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 35 in x 34 in; 88.9 cm x 86.36 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Baseball
- web subject
- Sports
- Record ID
- nmah_1864496
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-9f2b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
