Heartfelt as it was on this April Sunday at Citi Field, Doc Gooden’s number retirement ceremony was unlike almost any other, simply because his legacy has long been as complicated as his rise to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If anyone understands the beauty (and the risk) of a triple-digit fastball, it’s Doc Gooden, who blistered his way into the history books in 1985. Seems like a lifetime ago, but velocity still rules ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three New York City baseball legends, whose former teams were battling to make it to the World Series, appeared at a Hempstead High School pep rally Friday, ahead of the school's homecoming football ...