The Doctor has a prescription for the Mets: A staff ace. Former Mets great Dwight “Doc” Gooden recently spent time in Port St. Lucie at Mets camp talking with the pitching staff and watching some ...
This was Old Timers Day last week in the Bronx, which had turned into an open-air time portal. Memories of great players from a better era. Heaven for those old enough to remember the 2000 season. The ...
On Sunday afternoon at Citi Field, the New York Mets officially retired Dwight "Doc" Gooden's No. 16. During his speech, Gooden said he begged the team repeatedly to re-sign him, including on a ...
Doc Gooden has played for and won World Series titles, a decade apart, with both the Mets and the Yankees. And the former Cy Young award winner thinks “it will be interesting” to see whether the local ...
Lenny Dykstra leaving 500 Pearle st courthouse. Original Filename: DSC_7069.JPG Savulich/News When a story involves Doc Gooden on Drew Pinsky’s “Celebrity Rehab,” and neither Gooden nor Pinsky is the ...
It was a long time coming for Gooden, arguably the greatest pitcher in Mets’ franchise history. When Gooden pitched, it was an event. Shea Stadium was his until it wasn’t. He battled his own demons, ...
When Doc Gooden toed the rubber at Yankee Stadium on May 14, 1996, most fans were sure he was done in baseball. The 1984 Rookie of the Year had been suspended for more than a season for violating ...
Doc Gooden’s drug troubles with the Mets got so bad that he once asked his dealer for “the stuff” that killed former college basketball star Len Bias. The 1985 Cy Young Award winner revealed that ...
Put Dwight “Doc” Gooden in the camp of those not worried about Juan Soto’s long-term Mets future. Soto, 26, is off to a lackluster start to his Mets tenure after signing a record 15-year, $765 million ...
Mets greats and 1986 World Series champions Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry take a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby ahead of being honored this upcoming season. Gooden will have ...
During a recent edition of his “Great Game or What” podcast, legendary MLB reporter Tim Kurkjian retold a funny Roger Clemens and Doc Gooden All-Star Game story that he believes shows why pitchers ...