Chief Hogsett
Baseball
Born on a farm outside Brownell, Kansas, Hogsett was raised in the home of an abusive alcoholic who married his stepmother; he left home when he was 14 years old. He pitched for the high school team in Brownell, where he developed his "submarine" pitching technique. He joined a professional team in Cushing, Oklahoma, and it was there that Hogsett was given the nickname "Chief." Hogsett had this to say about the nickname: "I roomed with a full-blooded Kiowa Indian and the nickname just kind of stuck. Am I really Indian? Well, I\'m one-thirty-second Cherokee on my mother\'s side." (Richard Bak, "Cobb Would Have Caught It" (Wayne State Univ. Press 1991), p. 252.) During his major league career in Detroit, "Chief" Hogsett was greeted with "war whoops" by the fans at Navin Field when he took the mound.\n', '
Hogsett pitched primarily in relief, twice leading the league in games finished. He…
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