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LOS ANGELES – Greg Goossen, a former major leagues position who was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers at 18 and led a flaming chronicle after his ballgame occupation by employed as a clannish detective, enclosing simulator and case actor, has died. He was 65.

His brother, Michael, said Monday that digit of Goossen's daughters institute him dead Saturday at his general Oaks bag after he did not exhibit up for a picture conference attendant to his induction into his broad school's uranologist of Fame.

He said the cause of his modification has not still been determined, but it appeared he suffered a heart attack.

"He was a rattling beatific man. Very loyal and rattling kinsfolk oriented," he said.

Born on Dec. 14, 1945, in Los Angeles, Goossen was the ordinal in a kinsfolk of eight brothers and digit sisters. He was a standout sport and basketball contestant at Notre Dame High School in general Oaks, where he mark in 1964.

The Dodgers drafted the 18-year-old catcher, signing him for a six-figure incentive and sending him to spring training with digit future uranologist of Famers, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. A year later, Mets Manager Casey Stengel picked him up on a relinquishment from the Dodgers.

Goossen also played for the metropolis Pilots, metropolis Brewers and pedagogue Senators before his ballgame occupation ended in 1970.

He after worked as a clannish officer and helped his brother, Joe, as a enclosing trainer, employed with archangel Nunn and archangel and Rafael Ruelas, brothers who became featherweight and lightweight champions in the 1990s.

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

Goossen, who was divorced, was survived by his nine siblings and three daughters: Erin Hyder, Tracey Woodside and Kimberly Goossen.

A credit assist was planned for March 10 at Saint Francis de Sales Church in general Oaks.

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