4thace reviewed Doc: a memoir by Dwight Gooden
Review of 'Doc' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
The World Series season is described about a quarter of the way into this memoir. The rest mostly just falls into a series of falling off the wagon cycles the present-day Gooden describes with a baffled sort of sorrow, with a frank acknowledgement that it took him far too long to recognize the pattern. He is portrayed as a celebrity out of the ordinary money grubbing and privilege wielding mold, really more of an introvert who failed to recognize how the traumas of early youth could wipe out his unparalleled athletic gifts so thoroughly. He was a control pitcher who thought for far too long he could control his own self-destructive drives.