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...midway through the decade General Manager Frank Cashen got serious. Suddenly, the Mets were trading for honest-to-goodness superstars like Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter, and drafting superstars-to-be-in-a-hurry, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. With a new manager, Davey Johnson, at the helm, the Amazins vaulted into contention...
That's the latest slogan at Shea Stadium these days. Actually, it's "Baseball as it oughta be," italicized and everything, plastered right across the upper deck facade. Mets owner Frank Cashen probably felt defeated since the Atlanta Braves had already proclaimed themselves "America's Team...
...wrote a program designed, as he put it, to "optimize" the Oriole lineup. Weaver never got around to installing it, but he loved to hear his second baseman talk. To Johnson there are no "hitting streaks" or "hot hands." There are "favorable chance deviations." The Mets' general manager, Frank Cashen, also came from Baltimore. He is considered conservative, though ( a better word would be careful. While Cashen tilts especially toward caution in the development of 19-year-old arms, Johnson persuaded him to keep an open mind on Gooden...
Johnson and Cashen handpicked the stage for Gooden's first start, the Houston Astrodome--"before they brought the fences in," Dwight points out gratefully. "I couldn't sleep the night before, and I couldn't stand to wait for 5 o'clock to take the team bus. About 2:30 I left the hotel and walked by myself to the stadium, about a mile and a half. Everything was moving in slow motion; I was sweating pretty good." Despite forgetting all he knew about pitching the instant the game began ("It was like I'd never been on a mound...
...ball foul for strike two. A computer type, Johnson tries not to neglect human software either. He knows how to make pulling a pitcher seem a compliment on a par with leaving him in the game. "I see a lot of early Earl Weaver in him," says Frank Cashen, Weaver's old Oriole general manager, who brought Johnson to the Mets last year. "He has that same way of using all his people and taking particular care of each...