By Jim Baumbach, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 27--COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Few around baseball today fit the oldtimers' favorite saying -- "Son, it wasn't like this in my day" -- better than Rich "Goose" Gossage.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bruce Sutter was the only former major leaguer induced into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday but the reliever had plenty of company as Cooperstown welcomed 17 players from the Negro Leagues into the shrine. Sutter, who saved 300 games for the Chicago Cubs, St.

By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bruce Sutter, the newest member of baseball's Hall of Fame, says recognition of the importance of relief pitchers has been long overdue.

By RONALD BLUM NEW YORK - Bruce Sutter could become the first pitcher with no career starts elected to the Hall of Fame when results of 2006 balloting are released Tuesday.

Pitchers Chris Carpenter of the St. Louis Cardinals and Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees will win the 2005 Major League Baseball Cy Young awards, predicts a pair of mathematicians from Rhode Island College. The actual winners, intended to represent the most outstanding American League and National League pitchers during the regular season, will be announced November 8 (AL) and 10 (NL) by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, whose members vote on the award.