{"product_id":"doc-dwight-gooden-9781542047715","title":"Doc: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGooden'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 \u003ci\u003eCelebrity Rehab\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003ci\u003eDoc\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive look at a life equal parts inspiring and heartbreaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dwight Gooden,Ellis Henican\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1542047714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781542047715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Dwight Gooden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452730687743,"sku":"9781542047715","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f3e929a-5211-4926-bf55-460bef4bf597.jpg?v=1761930163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doc-dwight-gooden-9781542047715","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}