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Dwight Gooden’s No. 16 was retired by the Mets on Sunday. Carlos Toro for the NY Post. Gooden treated Class-A hitters the year before like toddlers, whiffing exactly 300.
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.
Dwight Gooden still had one regret about his career, he said Sunday during his number retirement ceremony, which was how his time with the Mets ended.
Dwight Gooden smiles during a press conference before his Mets number retirement ceremony. Robert Sabo for the NY Post. These days, Gooden, 59, and Strawberry, 62, are back on good terms.
Troubled Met legend Dwight Gooden’s battles with drugs and booze are “disappointing,” his son told The Post. “Doc” Gooden was busted last month in New Jersey for cocaine possession and ...
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 ...
Good news, Mets fan. Dwight Gooden is warming up his arm. What a fantasy that would be to go back in time and see “Doc” back on the Shea Stadium mound ready to dominate another overmatc… ...
“There was Dwight.” A year earlier, as a 19-year-old, Dwight Gooden had taken baseball by storm, a kid with gasoline in his right arm and a precocious predilection for dominating good hitters.
Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry at the start of the All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game in 2013. (Kathy Willens / Associated Press) “It is so true about Met fans,” Strawberry said.
Dwight Gooden said he doesn’t believe the Mets will go after Juan Soto in free agency unless the Yankees fail to lock him up in the free agency period. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post ...
Dwight Gooden greets fans in 2016 when the Mets were honoring the 1986 championship team. Getty Images “OK,” Gibbons said with a smile. “He can do whatever he wants. ...
To appreciate the implausibility of Dwight Gooden’s no-hitter, which happened 25 years ago Friday, you need to understand who the following characters were a quarter of a century ago: David Cone ...