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Robert Leon Huskey was born November 10, 1971, in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Butch was born into a large family of five brothers & three sisters. He spent time living with his grandmother before moving with his father to Lawton, Oklahoma. In 1989, the big six foot four; 244-pound third baseman was drafted by the New York Mets in the seventh round. Huskey won four Doubleday awards at various levels in the Mets organization, bashing 26 HRs at A ball in 1991.  Two years later he hit 25 HRs with 98 RBIs at AA Binghamton. Then in 1995 he was the International League MVP hitting 28 HRs with 87 RBIs & a .284 average at AAA Norfolk leading the Tides players in most offensive categories. Mets Debut: He was called up in September 1993, making his debut at the Houston Astrodome on September 8th, 1993, that night the Astros Daryl Kile pitched a no hitter against the Mets.  On September 11th, he drove in his first career run on a sac fly & had another the next ni...

Gregory Bryant Goossen was born on December 14, 1945, In Los Angeles, California. He was born to Anna Mae & Elliot Goossen, an LA Police Officer turned private investigator. The couple had ten children, eight boys & two girls.  He was a star baseball & football player  at Notre Dame high school in Sherman Oaks  getting recruited by big colleges such as UCLA, USC, Stanford, Colorado & Arizona State.  But Goossen chose baseball. In 1964 the six foot one, right-handed hitting catcher, was signed as an amateur free agent by the hometown Dodgers.  Goossen was released the next year & got picked up by the New York Mets picked on  waivers. In 1965 he hit 25 HRs batting .305 in the New York / Penn. League getting a September call up to the Mets at the age of 19.  Mets Career: Gossen debuted on September 3rd at in a 6-3 Mets win in St. Louis, getting a single off future Met; the Cardinals Ray S...

Joseph Clifton Martin was born December 13, 1936 in Axton, Virginia. Both of his grandfathers were named Joseph, so the family began to call him by his initials J.C. to avoid any mix up. J.C. was a clean-cut Christian boy, the son of a county deputy who use to visit his father at work & see the bad guys who didn't do the right things in jail. Martin never drank nor smoked, he lived a pure life because he all he wanted was to be a baseball player.  Martin was a high school baseball, basketball & track star getting offered contracts in both basketball as well as baseball. In 1956 he was signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent originally as a first baseman. In 1958 he hit .330 at Duluth-Superior, then was promoted to AA Indianapolis in 1959 where he hit .287.  MLB Debut- White Sox: Martin made his MLB debut getting his first MLB hit on the last day of the 1959 season, just as the "Go-Go Sox" won the A.L. pennant. He was thrille...