Showing posts with label Greg Goossen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greg Goossen. Show all posts

Sunday, November 11, 2012

The Sunday Funnies

Casey Stengel, as manager of the talentless New York Mets in the early '60s, once summed up a particular young player thusly:

"We got a kid, Goossen, 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be 30."

(Greg Goossen made to it 65, actually. But as a player, he never got even 200 at-bats in a season in the majors. Casey wasn't the only manager who doubted Goossen could play.)