I remember memorizing stats for every player on the team.
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They taught me how to be a sports fan-how to think of other people as representatives of me. That was all it took for Gooden and those Mets to become imprinted on my soul. And at 10, my favorite player and favorite team won the championship. I was 8 years old when Dwight Gooden made his major-league debut in 1984. I still remember laying rigid in the dark, guessing at the meaning of the cheers that drifted through my Manhattan bedroom window.Ĭheering fans line Broadway after the Mets won the World Series in 1986. It was on too late, and I’d been sent to bed before Mookie Wilson hit the dribbler through poor Bill Buckner’s legs. I didn’t get to see Game 6 against the Red Sox on live TV. The 1986 Mets won a franchise-record 108 games during the regular season, then became baseball legends thanks to a pair of classic playoff comebacks: a 16-inning seesaw win over the Astros to take the National League pennant and a strike-away-from-elimination rally on the way to winning one of the greatest World Series ever played. Gooden, the pitching ace, was profiled by 60 Minutes, and his likeness was blown up on a five-story billboard at the Lincoln Tunnel entrance to Manhattan. First baseman Keith Hernandez made the cover of GQ, and a few years later he took an acting gig on Seinfeld.
Catcher Gary Carter was the face of Ivory soap. They were mega-stars on a national scale. These champion Mets weren’t just local heroes.
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