Doc: A Memoir

Doc: A Memoir

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<div><div><p>A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time.</P> 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. 　</P> <p>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 <I>Celebrity Rehab</I>. 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. <I>Doc</I> is the<I> </I>definitive look at a life equal parts inspiring and heartbreaking.