Word: perlozzo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Some guys throw hard," Perlozzo says, "but they look it. Dwight was so smooth, effortless. Almost the only time you could sense the energy was when, say, there was a man on third with one out and he didn't want a ground ball to score a run. That's when he started pumping up his velocity, pulling out something extra. You could see it." A base runner juked Gooden into balking once. "That rattled him," Perlozzo remembers with a smile: a valuable lesson learned. But when he cooled out, Gooden strung together 15 victories that included a 46-inning...
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