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Dwight Gooden finally gets his Mets wish with number retirement

Dwight Gooden said Sunday he still has one regret about his career. That was how his time with the Mets ended. Ahead of the number-retirement ceremony, Gooden spoke with Mets fans on Sunday about “things going on” after his tenure with the team ended in 1994, when he was permanently suspended by MLB after testing […]

Darryl Strawberry surprises Dwight Gooden at Mets number retirement

Dwight Gooden had a pleasant surprise Sunday as Darryl Strawberry attended Gooden’s jersey number retirement ceremony at Citi Field after suffering a heart attack in March. “I didn’t know until I met him today,” Gooden said of finding out his former teammate would be attending. With Gooden’s No. 16 jersey being retired and Strawberry receiving […]

Mets’ John Gibbons on when he first saw Dwight Gooden’s greatness

John Gibbons still remembers the first time he witnessed Dwight Gooden speak. In the early 1980s, when Gibbons and the minor league Mets were staying at Tampa’s Edgewater Beach Hotel for spring training, an “upgraded” car with a license plate reading “DOC” was spotted. It stopped. “Who is this guy?” Gibbons, now the club’s bench […]

Dwight Gooden and Gary Carter had unlikely ‘amazing friendship’

They finally went and did it. They found their dream home. California kids Gary and Sandy Carter have finally decided to plant permanent roots in their adopted city of Montreal, but why not? Gary played professional baseball for the first time. He had just spent 10 years with the Expos. He made six consecutive All-Star […]

Ed Dwight, US’s first black astronaut candidate, will board Blue Origin flight

Ed Dwight, America’s first black astronaut candidate, will finally fly into space at the age of 90. The Air Force veteran will be one of six crew members aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere, Jeff Bezos’ space venture announced Thursday. “[Dwight] “He was selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as […]

Mets retiring Dwight Gooden’s number ‘special’ to whole family

Gary Sheffield will be among the players playing at Citi Field on April 14, when Dwight Gooden has his No. 16 jersey retired by the Mets. Few, if any, were as close to Gooden as he was during his ups and downs on and off the field from Tampa to Queens. Sheffield is Gooden’s nephew, […]

Ed Dwight, first Black astronaut, reflects on his carreer at age 90

Ed Dwight grew up on a farm on the outskirts of Kansas in the isolated 1930s. The airfield was within walking distance, and as a boy he would often go there to watch the planes and watch the pilots. Most of the planes had returned from hunting trips, and the interior was stained with blood […]