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After striking out 66 hitters in 66 innings, attracting thoughtful attention from a "roving instructor" named Davey Johnson, Gooden was summoned to Little Falls, N.Y., for a taste of lower A ball. The following season he was assigned to the higher A team at Lynchburg, Va., managed by Sam Perlozzo...
Though he appeared briefly in the 1983 International League Playoffs and Triple A World Series, Gooden's minor league career was essentially over. Blissfully, he did not know it yet. Davey Johnson was about to be named the new Mets manager, and Johnson had a notion about this young pitcher. "I wasn't really in a hurry," Gooden says. As a matter of fact, those few days at the end of the season made him wary enough of Triple A, let alone the National League. "I could see the hitters were much more patient, stronger too. Not only didn...
...Anyway, I met Davey's father, Davey Senior, at 18. I met him in an after- school center, where I played Ping-Pong every day, which I loved. Davey Senior was thrown out of his house for something, so he came to live with my mother and me. And then my grandmother moved in too. My grandmother was a rip; she used to beat up all the kids with a broom. Davey and me lived in the same house, but we didn't do nothin'--would you believe it? I was a virgin till I got married...
...years later, Davey Senior ran off to Florida with another woman, leaving Rose with the first of her children, Davey Junior, a boy of 15 today. Davey's one winter jacket was stolen last week. Rose vows to get it back. Joey, the second-oldest child, was produced by Frankie, with whom Rose lived for a year. The four other children belong to Vincent, with whom, until recently, Rose has been in an on-and-off custody war. Rose won the first * battle after Vincent had taken Sabrina and was sent to jail in handcuffs. "I hated...
...know that kid, Davey, that lady's son. I mean, I don't really know him, but I saw him last week after some Puerto Rican kids stole his jacket. It was a new leather jacket. They held a gun to his head. I saw him in the subway, and I gave him a hug. I didn't like him or anything. I just wanted to show him that not all Puerto Ricans were like that...