Biography for
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Date of Birth

14 December 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death

26 February 2011, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Gregory Bryant Goossen

Nickname

Goose

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse

?	(? - ?) (divorced) 3 children

Trivia

Major league baseball player for six seasons, 1965-1970. Played with New York Mets, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Senators.

Trained Rick Lindland as an amateur boxer. They later worked together in N.B.T. (2003).

Has appeared in at least 15 movies with Gene Hackman, including The Package, Loose Cannons, Class Action, Unforgiven, The Firm, Geronimo: An American Legend, Wyatt Earp, The Quick and the Dead, Get Shorty, The Chamber, The Replacements, Heist, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Behind Enemy Lines. He was also a stand-in for him in several other films.

On May 31, 1968, while playing for the New York Mets, Goossen broke up a possible perfect game by St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher Larry Jaster when Goossen singled with two out in the bottom of the 8th inning. Goossen was a reserve catcher and first baseman, and his best year in baseball came in 1969, with the Seattle Pilots, in their only major league season. Goossen hit .309 with 10 home runs in only 139 at-bats for the Pilots. Late in his baseball career Goossen was traded by the Washington Senators to Philadelphia in exchange for Curt Flood, whose lawsuit for free agency was pending against Major League Baseball.

He is survived by his nine siblings; daughters, Erin Goossen Hyder, Tracey Goossen Woodside, and Kimberly Goossen; and four grandchildren.

He was the fourth of ten children in a Roman Catholic family.

He declined a football scholarship from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1964.

Personal Quotes

Either everyone wanted me or everyone wanted to get rid of me.