His career, interrupted by World War II, lasted for only four seasons, but included three games played in Major League Baseball for the 1946 Washington Senators.

Nicknamed "Ox" and an outfielder by trade, he was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 185 pounds (84 kg); he threw and batted right-handed.

He entered pro ball in 1939 and played three seasons in the Florida State League, then a Class D circuit at the lowest level of Organized Baseball.

[1] In 1946, the first postwar season, MLB rosters were temporarily expanded to accommodate returning military veterans resuming their baseball careers; teams carried 36 players until June 15.

Goolsby broke spring training camp with Washington and appeared in three mid-April games: on the 18th and 19th as a pinch hitter, and on the 22nd as the Senators' starting left fielder.