Baseball's youngest legend; at the tender age of 21, the Mets' phenomenal Dwight Gooden is being touted as the best young pitcher in the history of the game.
Saturday Evening Post › Nbr. 258, January 1986
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Baseball's youngest legend; at the tender age of 21, the Mets' phenomenal Dwight Gooden is being touted as the best young pitcher in the history of the game.
BASEBALL'S YOUNGEST LEGEND
Two dozen talent scouts had roosted in the bleachers at the Hillsborough High ball field in Tampa to watch the school's gifted starting pitcher. But the youngester proved unable to control his throws that late-winter afternoon; before the first inning was half over, the coach, Billy Reed, decided to change pitchers. The scouts began to leave. Meanwhile, Reed turned and waved his sleek left fielder to the mound. As the tall right-hand...See the full content of this document
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