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Dwight Gooden taking it day by day, Sports
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Baseball's Best Moments - Dwight Doc Gooden's No Hitter (1996
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RCBC Ghost - Staten Island, NY - (STATEN ISLAND, NY) - powered by
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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends by Rob Neyer - Ebook
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From 1994-2019: Drafting the Past 26 Years of Cleveland Indians
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SPORTS OF THE TIMES; 'CY' WASN'T SURPRISED - The New York Times
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Mel Stottlemyre, the Yankees' pitching ace during lean years, dies
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When Gooden was larger than life - NJ Baseball
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MLB Archives
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Tim Kurkjian's Baseball Fix - On this date in baseball history - ESPN
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I'll go over the moon only once
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The untold stories of Doc Gooden's 1985 Mets brilliance