Doc, Dwight Gooden
Doc, Dwight Gooden
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Doc
A Memoir

Author: Dwight Gooden, Ellis Henican

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2013

Synopsis

A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time.With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off of it, Gooden was a soft-spoken, dominating wunderkind who tallied a mountain of strikeouts while leading the 1986 bad-boy New York Mets to a World Series win. Even at that pinnacle, Gooden had already succumbed to a cocaine addiction that would short-circuit his career and personal life.Gooden's story transcends baseball, from his childhood in Tampa raised by a father who was an alcoholic womanizer, to the recent experience of overcoming his own demons on the show Celebrity Rehab. Along the way, Gooden offers a unique perspective on Yankees owner and stalwart supporter George Steinbrenner and some of the greatest baseball players of all time. Doc is the definitive look at a life equal parts inspiring and heartbreaking.

About Dwight Gooden

At age nineteen, Dwight Eugene Gooden was baseball’s pitching phenom, thrilling New Yorkers and fans everywhere. Nicknamed “Doc” for his surgical, 98-mph fastball, he was named Rookie of the Year, became the youngest player ever to appear in an All-Star game, received the Cy Young Award, and guided the 1986 New York Mets to World Series victory—his first of three World Series rings. After a long battle with drug addiction, Gooden, a dedicated father of seven, is now clean and working with at-risk children and adults.

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“It’s outstanding. Let this be said again: Against all precedent, Doc is outstanding; a brutally honest, oft-painful retelling of the life of a onetime pitching phenom whose existence has been largely ruined by nearly three decades of on-again, off-again drug and alcohol abuse.” —Newsday

“Why it’s hot: Few athletes have known such highs and lows as Gooden, a 19-year-old star with the Mets in 1984 who, in a comeback with the Yankees, threw a no-hitter in 1996.” —USA Today

“He is now two years sober, the author of a superb new bio (Doc: A Memoir) that is excruciating, entertaining, and heartbreaking all at once, and baseball is still his favorite subject.” —New Jersey Star Ledger

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