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Brooks Lee Raley was born June 29th, 1988, in San Antonio, Texas. The six-foot, three left hander attended Texas A&M University getting drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the sixth round of the 2009 Amateur draft. MLB Career: In 2012 Brooks was promoted to the Cubs staff in August, making five starts going 1-2 with a 8.14 ERA. In 2013 he was up & down from AAA Iowa three times, making nine appearances with a 5.14 ERA allowing sight runs in 14 innings. Korean Baseball Organization: In December 2014 Raley signed a contract to play in the Korean Baseball Organization with the Lotte Giants. He played in five years in the KBO going 48-53 with a 4.13 ERA striking out 755 batters in 910 innings.  For 2020 he signed a minor league deal with the Cincinnati Reds & he made the team for the Covid19 season. After four games he was traded to the Houston Astros for a player to be named later. In 17 appearances he went 0-1 with a 3.94 ERA.  2020 Post Season: Rayley made an appeara...

Philip Louis Maton III was born on March 25th, 1993, in Paducah, Kentucky. Family: Both of Maton's parents attended Eastern Illinois University playing sports. His father ran on the track team & his mother played volleyball.  Phil has two brothers, both played pro baseball. His brother Nick Maton has played parts of four seasons in ML with the Phillies (2021-2022) Tigers (2023) & Orioles (2024) batting .205. Phil attended Louisiana Tech where he ended his career as the school's all-time leader in innings pitched (358.2) & is second in strike outs (324). In 2015, the six foot two right hander was selected in the 20th round of the draft by the San Diego Padres. Maton came up with the Padres & spent parts of three seasons with them making 112 appearances with a 4.16 ERA. There his teammates gave him the nickname "Spin Rate". In July 2019 he was traded to the Cleveland Indians where he pitched middle relief for parts of three more seasons. On July 30th, ...

Tommy Lee McCraw was born November 21, 1940 in Malvern, Arizona. The McCraw family, his father a singer & mother a food worker, moved to Southern California, with Tom attending high school in Venice Beach & then Santa Monica Community College. In 1960 t he speedy first baseman / outfielder got signed by the Chicago White Sox. In 1962 he won the AA batting title hitting .362 making it to the big leagues the next year.  MLB Career : McCraw came up to the big leagues with a lot of promise, becoming the Sox everyday first baseman in his rookie year.  That season (1963) he hit .254 with 6 HRs 33 RBIs & 15 stolen bases. Tommy would steal 15 or more bases in five of his first six seasons. McCraw spent eight seasons in Chicago during the years of their classic powder blue road uniforms, hitting 50 of his 75 career HRs.  In 1967 he hit a career best 11 HRs, with 45 RBIs batting .236 while stealing 24 bases (4th in the league). That season the White Sox finished four...

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...