The Final Score (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
When I was at Cooperstown over the summer to cover baseball's Hall of Fame induction ceremony, I was shocked to see Dwight Gooden's name listed as one of the players signing autographs in town. Ever since Gooden got out of...
Dom D's - Mets Fan Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
1967: New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver , who posted a 16-12 record with 170 strikeout s and 2.76 ERA , is named National League Rookie of the Year by the BBWAA . 1984: Four days after his 20th birthday, New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the youngest player ever to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award . Gooden posted a 17-9 record with a 2.60 ERA and a major...
Dom D's - Mets Fan Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Today in Mets History: 1966: Replacing the legendary Casey Stengel , the New York Mets name Wes Westrum as the team's second manager in the franchise's brief history. The former Giants catcher had taken over the club reins after Stengel had fractured his hip in July. 1985: Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets ( National League ) and Bret Saberhagen of the Kansas City Royals ( American League...
Mike's Mets (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... baseman Rich Puig out of Hillsborough High in Tampa (the same school that would later produce Dwight Gooden) their number one draft pick, but of course, Puig never made it. This selection was notable because the next pick in the draft was Jim Rice. In the winter of 1972, the Mets traded for Felix Millan, who did an excellent job for several seasons. As Millan got older and it became...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... career. Also announced yesterday, winners of the Cy Young Award for best major league pitchers: Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets and Brett Saberhagen of the Kansas City Royals. On the comics page in 35 newspapers across the country today, readers return to a new strip that debuted yesterday: Calvin and Hobbes . Lincoln Perry, better known as Stepin Fetchit , dies at age 83, and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
... down like they used to."In many ways, Lincecum was the second coming of a young Vida Blue, a young Dwight Gooden, a young Fernando Valenzuela, a young Mark Fidrych, all of whom immediately wowed the baseball world with their tantalizing display of pitches. Using an unusual twisting windup featuring a long stride and heavy torque, Lincecum did it with a fastball in the high 90-mph...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Herb Score, the longtime radio and TV voice of the Cleveland Indians whose own glittering pitching career nosedived after taking a liner to the face off the bat of the Yankees’ Gil McDougal in 1957, has passed away at the age of 75 . A 34 year fixture in the Tribe’s broadcast booth, Score was the AL Rookie of the Year in 1955, a season he finished with 245 K’s, a freshman record that stood until Dwight...
MetsBlog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
At the blog Tornadic Activity, El Juglar recaps an interview he attended with Dwight Gooden yesterday, writing: “The funniest moment of the night came when an audience member asked of the three distinct hair styles Doc sported during his career (close cut, flat top and jheri curl), which did he prefer. Doc thought about it and [...]
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
On the morning of a World Series game, as gray clouds churn the sky, you walk from the cemetery across 22nd Street and turn down King Boulevard, looking for any signs of life at the tiny ballparks where the big-league careers of Dwight Gooden and Gary Sheffield were born.
Baseball Toaster: The Griddle (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... Yankees will win the World Series in six games. - Roger Clemens of the Red Sox gets a win while Dwight Gooden of the Mets takes the loss in what proves to be the last game for AL manager Dick Howser. The game is played at the Astrodome. The Mets win the World Series in seven games.
MSNBC.com: Race in America (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
updated 6:35 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2008ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Look around this World Series and it’s easy to spot all the newcomers — Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Carl Crawford, B.J. Upton and David Price, eager to get a huge hit or throw a perfect pitch.To Billy Reed, they’ve already made a big difference.Reed coached Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield and many more future big leaguers as boys...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
Rays, Phils help change face of SeriesBy BEN WALKERAP Baseball WriterST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Look around this World Series and it's easy to spot all the newcomers - Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Carl Crawford, B.J. Upton and David Price, eager to get a huge hit or throw a perfect pitch.To Billy Reed, they've already made a big difference.Reed coached Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield and many...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Look around this World Series and it's easy to spot all the newcomers - Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Carl Crawford, B.J. Upton and David Price, eager to get a huge hit or throw a perfect pitch.To Billy Reed, they've already made a big difference.Reed coached Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield and many more future big leaguers as boys across the bay in Tampa. He sees this...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Look around this World Series and it's easy to spot all the newcomers — Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Carl Crawford, B.J. Upton and David Price, eager to get a huge hit or throw a perfect pitch.To Billy Reed, they've already made a big difference.Reed coached Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield and many more future big leaguers as boys across the bay in Tampa. He sees this...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... hit or throw a perfect pitch.To Billy Reed, they've already made a big difference.Reed coached Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield and many more future big leaguers as boys across the bay in Tampa. He sees this fresh crop of stars changing the face of the game."I think having so many African-American ballplayers in the World Series, it has impact on local kids and I'm hoping impact countrywide,"...
