Opener Almanac

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Published April 4, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

A new season is upon us and another opening day is here. Tomorrow's opener marks the first in Citi Field history. Below is a brief almanac of every Mets opener ever played, 48 in all. Some were memorable, some were not. The two predominant pitchers on opening day were Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden who won almost every time they took the mound for game one. And something only the Mets could do, they won a World Series before they ever won an opening day. As Casey used to say ... "You can

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Doc, Darryl going to Citi 'Hall'

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 3:19 a.m.

The Mets yesterday announced yesterday that Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and Frank Cashen will be inducted into the team's Hall of Fame this summer ... A new member hasn't been added since 2002, when Tommie Agee was elected ... Gooden, estranged from the organization for several years because ...

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Doc & Darryl to be inducted into Mets Hall of Fame (AP)

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Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 11:25 p.m.
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Doc and Darryl, together again. Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry will be inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame this summer, highlighting a class that features four key members of the 1986 World Series champions. Popular manager Davey Johnson and general manager Frank Cashen also will be feted on Aug ...

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Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden to join New York Mets Hall of Fame with Frank Cashen, Davey Johnson

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Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 4:33 p.m.
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Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden were announced as part of a four-person class headed for the newly-revived Mets Hall of Fame, along with two of the bigwigs of the Mets' last World Series champion in 1986, GM Frank Cashen and manager Davey Johnson ...

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Davis, Save Us

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Published Nov. 30, 2009 at 7:21 a.m.

The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we'd have nothing more to sate our perilously low self-esteem than Luis Castillo's fantastic seventh-place finish in voting for mlb.com's National League Comeback Player of the Year balloting (six points behind the decreasingly heartwarming return of

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End Zone: Doc Gooden starting all over again

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Published Nov. 14, 2009 at 7:45 p.m.
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More than half his life has passed since the spectacle of Dwight Gooden in his No. 16 Mets uniform, so young and strong and utterly gifted, fueled a frenzy the likes of which this town may never see again - a frenzy that reached everywhere ...

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Dark Side's Callin' Now

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Published Nov. 2, 2009 at 5:10 a.m.

Flipping over from the encore presentation of perhaps the best episode ever of Mad Men and glimpsing the Yankees' ninth-inning rally in Game Four — the one that has all but buried the Phillies' hopes of successfully defending their 2008 championship — I thought of Luis Castillo ... or "Luis Castillo". If I say "Luis Castillo," you know what I mean. The vignette that leaps (or drops) to mind is so identified with the player, that's it's not even synonymous; it's eponymous ... I thought of

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Note: Team Colors, Hats and Jerseys in 86

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Published June 27, 2009 at 1:45 p.m.

The MLB Network is showing Game 5 between the Mets and Astros from the 1986 National League Championship Series.First of all, it is a treat to watch Dwight Gooden take on Nolan Ryan – what a match up.  I forgot Ryan had such a strong curve ball, as I always think first of his fastball.  [ ... ] ...

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Mets' Sheffield homers, giving Gooden a blast

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Published June 13, 2009 at 8:33 p.m.
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To fans he's "Doctor K," or simply "Doc." To the record books, he's Dwight Gooden, three-time world champion pitcher for the Mets and Yankees. To Gary Sheffield? ...

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CONTENT GOODEN STARTING A BASEBALL ACADEMY

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Published May 30, 2009 at 6:13 a.m.

LIFE is good again for Dwight Gooden. His daughter Ariel's high school graduation party is set for tomorrow in Tampa. His nephew Gary Sheffield is tearing it up for the Mets. And he's healthy, though a few pounds overweight And Doc's starting a ...

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