Doc Gooden was a Mets ace for 11 seasons. He broke out in 1984 as NL Rookie of the Year and earned the NL Cy Young Award the following season. As a Met, Gooden was a 4-time All-Star, twice the MLB str ...

Imagine you’re a hitter facing Dwight Gooden at Shea Stadium. You’re gearing up for his mid-90s fastball only to have your knees buckle at Dr. K’s sensational curveball and you walk back to the dugout ...

Bob Ojeda came to the Mets in 1986 after a trade with Boston. He joined a stable of young arms that included reigning Cy Young Award winner Dwight Gooden, 1985 All-Star Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez, ...

The Mets of the 1980s, led by Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, started a revitalization among the team’s fans. In 1981, two years before Strawberry arrived, barely 700,000 fans attended games at S ...

Whether it was early in his playing days working with kids on the diamond or in retirement visiting with children with special needs, Dwight Gooden has made giving back a priority. “It’s very humbling ...

“When I talk to the fans today, I always tell them [the crowd] worked to my advantage,” Dwight Gooden explained. “Being on the mound at Shea Stadium any time I got two strikes on a batter the fans wou ...

Dwight Gooden took the mound for the Mets on June 23, 1990, after a tough two months to start the season and an injury-filled 1989 campaign. All Gooden did was throw a two-hit complete game shutout ag ...

In perhaps the most dominating start of his Mets career, on September 7, 1984, against the division-leading Chicago Cubs, 19-year-old Dwight Gooden tossed a complete game one-hit shutout, striking out ...

In eight different seasons, Dwight Gooden got the ball on Opening Day to start New York’s year. The Mets went 7-1 in those starts, including a four-hit shutout over the Colorado Rockies in 1993, the f ...

Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden and more rising Mets stars graced the cover of the 1985 media guide.