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 […]