Catcher Greg Goossen, one of the few people to play for the short lived Seattle Pilots, passed away Saturday. He played for nothing but expansion teams, coming up with the Mets, moving to the Pilots in 1969, following the team to Milwaukee before finishing with the second version of the Washington Senators. After posting terrible numbers in New York, he hit .309/.385/.597 in 52 games for Seattle, finishing with the highest slugging percentage on the team for anyone with 50 PA. Despite just 139 at bats, Greg hit 10 home runs, the third highest total by a Pilots player.

He later worked as a private detective and helped his brother, Joe, as a boxing trainer, working with Michael Nunn and Gabriel and Rafael Ruelas, brothers who became featherweight and lightweight champions in the 1990s.

Through boxing, he met Gene Hackman and later served as the actor’s stand-in in more than a dozen movies. He also played minor characters in many of those films.

It sounds like he led an eventful life. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.