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Doc, June 2013
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New Harvest
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 0544027027
EAN: 9780544027022
Kindle: B00AQMH0EQ
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from
one of the greatest pitchers of all time. 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. 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 Celebrity
Rehab. 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.
Doc is the definitive look at a life equal
parts inspiring and heartbreaking.
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