just. on larry king now dwight doug gooden the baseball great talks about his struggles with cocaine and i was positive person i could have done my life because i fell in love with it right there it's bad as it says may sound phone love with it and eventually became addicted to the on winning one versus father get the surgery is on life support so i give him the ball and the doctor so he saw the game you know made over the hospital pass away but the last baby so he put it was that it's all ahead on larry king now. one of the larry king our special guest one of my favorite folks goodin the new book appropriately titled dot a memoir and one thousand eight hundred actually leave the site young award winner

in one nine hundred eighty five triple crown receive been going twenty four and for two hundred sixty eight strikeouts in the area one point five three world series champion with the mets in the six in eighty six in ninety six in two thousand a champion with the yankees dogs in stores everywhere about it my friend bob costas says the young blue eyed good was as beautiful a watch as any the dr ever seen the questions seem to be not whether he would make the hall of thing but whether he would rank among the greatest pitches who ever lived in dot gooden honestly confronts how and why the story didn't quite turn out that way why did you write this i thought thomas right i was comfortable in my own skin very constable and happy with my recovery and when my sobriety i see when the slippery have thousand way of me base removing the self myself and i'm in that i do have the disease i call it drugs and my addict not i thought about it but up by doing that and then it was a thought about doing

a book and i myself also know one day i was doing the twelve steps and i was a step for like the end. story of itself in a song right now chapters as a man this would be a great book so i was that talked to my mom i'm older kids about doing it to make sure that it was ok with religion someone's dark moments and it was all for it is it's going to help you help others go forward so i put the chapters their own kind of shops around it came with the book happy i did it was great therapy for myself and of like help someone else that may have a family member or friend going to some of situations where they're hard to write some stuff very hard and like in the in the book right west of about business parade does very difficult a as though it is the victory parade of the eighty six world series and you are not in the parade because you're on coke yes that was. very tough the right ivan was doing it as i don't put that in but i say you know what my secrets would keep me sick so i have to put that in and be a public figure i want to share that when i can hear what happened coming from me

a pose of others is very tough because miss a parade that day you go from which should have been the greatest day of my baseball career at that time that the rails later turned into the worst day of my baseball career at the time and that's when i knew that i was powerless over drugs at that point. interviewed over the years many many people who been addicted to cocaine and the like and they never had an answer as to why they took it what why did you first hey go on top of the world you're a great star you're terrific talent. why. my problem was always been a people pleaser we got in trouble a member going to our roads was house bass i was going to get pot which is just as well he said i'm rather good or have any at that time yet a couple females in the house knows can make out with each other you know stored cocaine i could never imagine myself doing it and was more attracted to girls then the drug so they're saying i want to join with us but they only want to join with

them i had to do a line of cocaine fortunately i took the chance of taking one i couldn't hurt did the one line and i was probably worse than i could have done my life because i fell in love with it right there as bad as it says may sound for love with it and eventually became addicted to it oh i'm sober now two years marjorie two years for myself. is the high is so high that it's yeah you can't wait till the meth one that's a problem as a request and it's like we take the first hit you get a major rise but you never get the rossini chasing that that first hit that you took you could never get it to get there first you never get it sometimes if you know says miss off on most of two or three days searching for the hidden you never get it and it becomes the most important thing in your life before you kids for your wife for your mother to the amazing book to write about this your son was arrested for selling crack right you were in james same jail with your son. was at

the low point i was deaf and one of the points i was horrible because were made as was that balance has been in jail will always had dreams of one day that i can stick around long enough for the major leagues and hopefully gets drafted it will become teammates that way when the same uniform and i fashion not when the same you know gel so uniform and to do that was very difficult to go through. you have said so once talent when you look back at these you say be ever have regrets i have regressed glad to be careful with that child of the linger knows rest to mice but i want to keep it fresh there were no if it was let my guard down to go back to drugs what could have been one things i should beat myself up with was expectations of others expectations of the media and then it became my expectations of you know you should have had three of the winners should been a hall of fame it was a lot of so work and i stood strong with god on septa that i didn't do that but then i had to think about it as i was second when i was

a kid my only dream was to play major league baseball never thought any awards obviously anything about the hall of fame there was a lot of a lot of time because i love the game and some of the game so i was able to accomplish one privately or any award that a pitch can win that three rosaries running who's the no hitter i got inductance of mess hall of fame so i said well my to feel bad about the career and that's what got me they all have different parties and career has to beat myself up about it. the influence of your father he wanted to be a major league is it is amazing because once i told him i want to play professional baseball when you get off work we'll go to the park and we were collies drills and as any kid we young seven eight nine years old just want the ball hit it we were about three weeks we just feel these drills while at the ball later on as you get older notice doing so is basically his dream at the beginning you know if there is room for me then became my dream and want to graze so that my dad was calling him time i made the team it in having him at my first professional game and you know

when we see a pitcher is a first baseman he's a pistol but it's things first base in a eisley are my nephew gary sheffield he also started him very young training him as well is that close to gary very close to gary there is basically is when everybody's more like my younger brother you know we actually was kids share the same bed at one time so we were going to play or your father may go. it negotiate my first concert i did his basic wage and with that and then i got a jd later on but then at the mr ninety five season one join the yankees i said negotiate a contract with mrs sobber or what form cause you play for the mets doesn't offer you a draft in one thousand and two i want to keep sport to see that bill it's only our call it's a little falls towards in it's one game and then more on this right now i guess the one hundred three percent is spurgeon yeah they are called aaa for the aaa you know players who are also those who offer us an offer ties in david johnson is the manager there and i remember at their pitching great for the playoffs the aaa

bursars he told me said what i meant is make sure you know my team something while i'll be greatly subir aaa they have to bigley job that was a strike slip and fall and i'll just joke with us they don't know what you told me as i don't worry about it you don't make the team so i get invited to the big lee camp not even on the roster yet and so all the camp you know for office was on the media with on some of the aaa maybe double it was works out but david told me to talk to you know your make the team so. the last game of spring training is about the fourth or fifth then before it would break in camp that they come up to miss a regulation should make the team and at that point you very cited but then you thinking am i really ready for this film is a big challenge going to ninety years old you're always come for though or you're a cocky pitcher you have a lot of confidence. very cocky that they will help was when i was younger my dad ecosystem my protein as was softball player those guys not dollars when i was a kid i think they're going to help me with the confidence that in florida red yes

for tampa yes. we know the budget the world the eighty six world series it is right that you you win the world series you call your father and then you call your dealer there you wanted coke right after that high i was in that enough of a high it was that's it doesn't know situation i was told in the now where are you sober with the team on the field sober team in a clubhouse so i want to go in by the trainers room a comment that it's all very well him a little bit when they're called the drug dealer says their mess so they can. get a bit of drugs and meet the team at a local bar in long island obviously i never made it to meet the team and what's in the sun come up in the house or projects a motel room and then i remember watching the beginning of the parade and once i saw that that was sold me off but then that's when all the shame and embarrassment and guilt came into place at a point because at that point i knew i really had a problem street up at the t. no it. i think it's he was aware of it to their credit though in

a season they icicle in office and were talking about the rumors those who denied it are mainly boys major league baseball common their office also a mad oh it i was twenty one and the time a common office and i was confident on it and. they were testing more than what they offered it says but you know unless they have some evidence they can tell you but then in eighty seven when spring training in a mess again heard a moment they said would you give us some your you know for it our tests may not knowing how long it stays in the system i said sure and i give it as obviously the test came a positive so he gave me a choice is that we can suspend you will pay or you can go to treatment with pay so i was that if the treatment would pay still not think i had a problem so base that was enough for thirty days in the us medicine institution here in new york and based just market on days and just on my time is to learn about myself and in a to z. use you how did you come to the eighties i came of the yankees will happen was a suspect in one thousand and five so i was out there year the rayna grown as

a good friend of mine a work with mr stanbury for a long time and it was you know it was like my god it had me train had me going any means and he said i was like the big ag at that point i would play where ever you know are so he said when the season over the summer almost a week which you and so seattle obviously was playing in the playoffs i was really very empty pitcher fail besides david cohn because that was better my sense is so when the series over the summer make an example we had a meeting every said may she was soon tired so i well it was too tired to meet joyce's goes west soup so we thought no i judge. and then well that there is important in your life very important so we talked about two hours never talked about baseball just one noel's door my kids and wildstorm do the thomases found it when they say call themselves like the yankee says sure so my dad went over to the tampa complex and worked out a deal to become a yankee and it was just great and. is milad to me even my dad was passed and it

was thought some of the hospital would like that or he was pacing in place and all had a right yeah one thousand and six that's why they are mets fans they don't like to hear me say the greatest moment of my baseball career as bits annoyed with the yankees by those as they were there took place behind that because my dad was very sick his own dollars as he was fighting kidney failure for a long time that is hard star thought of so the day that there's no hitter i was a fly on the booing him before the surgery to say that they could be at their surgery why got them or not that he probably want me to pitch so i called joe torre it was magic team tomas come in a bit she said no just go home take as much time you need so as an aussie tonight and i called them up as well let him know i was home page turned out to be a no hitter. and so the next morning fly home he had the surgery is on life support so i give him the ball and the doctor saw me saw the game you know made over the hospital not pass away but the last game he saw me pitch was that. who i backed with the book is doc.

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the breaking news. the. alexander family cry tears of joy and great things out there that have read or hear the court of law on the ground online is a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. but that would dog good in the book his dog a memoir guaranteed best seller you and darryl strawberry forever linked write this up together the year ahead of me is actually drafts of the one nine hundred eighty . two it was going to be the next said williams yes i tell you what force potential nobody has more talent in fortunately we had a lot of similar problems but for his talent was i was

a bit better how did you handle incarceration that was definitely a problem for me and i was very tough in the time you know cause for it is tough but going to that age of forty for. i have months you know way from kids no contact was very difficult for myself i'm at times you thought it was a nightmare at times you don't know how you don't get out of there and those times you don't know how you're going to stop that once you get out and then you get there relive your life while in there lot of time is to see how it all happened at all on for that and what i do it or what i'm doing here because there's you know the name just a number the number at the only time you close would go well ok i mean we've had i don't buy a game you played against each other there had a good time yankee said dodger stadium there was a lot of fun those great cities they had the kind of clothes they were i mean is like. before we have our problems for each other it was based on what romans what different culture friends would say is that it was called each other talk about it was just start hating each other. we've talked since in our lives it was good and i

have a lot of specs and things he's doing as well as me and i know that in a day he has come back and i have his do you think a lot of different if you were pitching in kansas city rather than new york. i think of pas to have some of the same problems i think it probably wouldn't win as well as far as i think i have same problems because a lot of times well go back home run all season to tampa i was single i know our guys that didn't have my best interests and so it was there so i think it will happen because this is a tough town to play it right i mean the press yes it can be tough tough when you're in billboards in times square in music videos with bruce springsteen you're in commercials. you had all. those right there and i wouldn't trade them for nothing obvious i was there all still stuff would been different but the things i was going my career i mean it was a great time did you always stay friendly with george always the front doors in georgia like a second father to me. when i retired from the eggs in two thousand are worth on

the joys you know for six years and i have to know a lot about him that other people do get to see the things he do you know from the kinds of his heart of that he was a good man a very good man don't other stuff it's really into being crazy boss he was tough i remember on the first time a sort with the in his ninety six a sort of on three and out that there are laws while coasting on my wife and he's coming down the tunnel say to her there's miss summer i deduce you saw us eyeballs i don't like to be my wife is where you were met nothing game. but that he meant well in a day and we talked about bad and well when i work with him i had to suicide that not many people got so i kind he was a carrier he was of others and of things he did. the obvious how did you stop taking drugs stopped by our base is going on is for myself i had to change my lifestyle and what i mean by that people places and things all had to change i had

to get honest with myself and basically get totally involved in sobriety in recovery you're either in or you're out always have one foot in i kept in the same as also i had to totally commit to any a means get a sponsor have a great support group does the recovery that we toast of base daily and at the be true of myself where i'm not from right that day at the pick up the phone what do you do for a living for a living now i coach my yos baseball team it's often i get the opportunity to do some corporate put the mets and yankees you know up in the suites which i really enjoy and like working with the youth that's really my passion and joy to coach i mean i want to get back into the game i think of eventually i see a bike in some fashion or another right now i have to teach boys as graduate next year and then i have two young kids eight and three so i think isaf will be more involved in their lives and what's coming with them because when i played i was away all the time miss a lot of school activities miss a lot of the sports things so now i should be there for them as much as i can't but

eventually i think i can opt in again say he is so bored could have been i should be in the hall of fame here in the met all of it was a if a and i didn't have this problem he would natural for the whole of it i doubt they'd go for sure about to have miles for problems fighting of drugs narco there's no doubt i would have been i don't dwell on it too much now because for us on my mind but i think it was just the way it was meant to be where i get to share my story now and talk to kids while not in there and to share with them what happened with me was he lied when you watch it. when i want to watch it ever want it well you get true sometimes sometimes you think about it would be nice to have a drink or you might be watching games or commercial might think about it for a moment. i can't stand the thought is if you pick up the phone or try to change thinking i think that's going to rest my life but the thing is what i do about that when i get that trigger is your personality is always with you right this lifetime

commitment in cory's of an addict right yes and magic is a lifetime commitment and one of my problems before was i'll get some clean time now i think ok i have it now i can do this for myself and i fell every time so i know i have to stay committed when you are judging pitchers come you know this kid harvey on the bed and the other kid coming up what do you think i think the mess when i went to some good days ahead hopefully it's fun watching harvey while those two stars of the as law potential as well a sort of game he did when he said well i don't play the harvey pitt should we had you comment for the whole game as it were and that was all fun because it gave my idea that maybe this could be avenue for me you know doing some alice and stuff like that but as far as special clothes and watch these guys in person pitch they are broke for each of these can see helping the named doc i see came i see so grown people say dr j. but now i had my dad had a friend and he was a movie he was a real doctor real m.d. and anytime in my game i would just write some about and he was some for every one

of the reason was it was a come on doc operate on doc you have another patient doc doing a twelve local newspaper do a story on me he's got tommy curing he's passed away now and did story he was writing this is the same thing that i would say but the current doctor just kind of stuck with me through high school and there was a god gave us a yes we're going to read a quote you included in your book by the right of peter rix written at the age of twenty why goodness sibley the best picture in baseball and getting better if all goes well for the next fifteen or twenty is he will be the best pitcher in the history of the game the feeling you give that when you hear people say that as a compliment as a compliment to say that the best pitcher ever has been some great pitchers to go through so that even be brought up in that even though it didn't happen but to be mentioning that is a great photo many wenzhou up with one ninety four. you're on the ballot aren't you a member of done the old timers autos that now are out to be like the committee or

something like that i think there's a chance i think so and i said because i think it's unfortunately where we start off so hot and so says early you always prepared to that where things change over a year and i think a lot of web apps and me later my career where there's a contractor was a hall of fame was always good per to happen in my first couple years you know greg link player was great at twelve i totally love the bigger because i was taller then but totally dominated then pitching at that time you could hear there in bay and mays really i was ok i had a home runs as a pitcher that once it was lighter most pitchers were always think we're better than what we really are you know there's i think a lot of pride in my head there we play a game called if you only knew what would people be surprised to hear about a lot of the ballplayers that people don't know. that they're all soaps this is where they tell you that or not they are right there everyone step on the phone lines up in the fall are going to go to the bullpen to warm up at a certain time are going through

a certain amount of pitches i want to in my warm up by certain times but i had a player tell me once when they won the first game award series he would wear the same underwear until a last while everybody is a little different odell for closure favors the pigeon other than new york i'll say l.a. and that was because of the mound moser great mound the prison as they didn't does they didn't always seem like i guess what the there was six was up on a plate like it was close to what you really were and at the night games faulk would always become and so the ball in trouble of mice but low percentage of by the angels well it was ok but once they got there the tours in my career but out it was fun what julie's favorite city the first city was they probably center cisco near killing some cisco because to me it was always suspense of. course mlodinow was always a family tree away the wife would come and so of course we go to visit. it's a beautiful city in a ball park but then cal's again over there wars place the first place fits yes

a lot of the mercer told me once about san francisco we have when he was with the giants we have a home field disadvantage because it was a tough place i mean the pits and stuff when is it tough as did he have ediface silly davis was very tough wins with the same school giants and i was doing colonise on them l.b. and they saw stuff it was tough. and even we came to the eighty thousand clean i can do them up funny as teammate roger might doubt but for all you had to go you told when he was around scariest teammates. say probably are kevin mitchell really great guy. but you want to piss them off who is your closest friend on team david cohn i was a strawberry was first appears in there when david king david cohen came over ninety seven it was him he still don't cover the yankees this was the first big purchase you made probably are you myself or is the twenty camaro with the t. tops in one thousand to my drafted as the twenty tomorrow or was your favorite moment the no hitter yes or your favorite pitch throw my curb or by talked about

how hard it through the fastball but to me is no better place than a curve ball because you're looking for the third strike where you don't swing you like the called third strike the call to respect that was another sport you were good at football like football as i got older you know when the big kid and i was afraid of contact but i was a decent quarterback but when he sees of in the future with what i will hold the end up way up forty way we go quite good and do his fifties in the fifty's i think doing something involved with the youth i mean as much your passion working with kids what is baseball the way this is done with life issues that's why we what do you make of baseball's rules noted with regard to drugs like the rules are like there the way they had it i think they've done a decent job of cleaning it up i think bustle exeunt i'll send it out with that and i think it's going keep improving you know they suspend since it. being tougher. first time was in fifty days second time one hundred days the time you're up that

there are no account like that format but i think that once you've got test positive it's to get some type of treatment even if it's severus just to sit in some type of treatment has to be there as well at the head of addiction is a true all drug addicts of very good liars all one percent thing is legalized the self and thereby there's no you a line but you believe it and this is how powerful drug is. one of the quotes in this book about you. pete rose said when i was in a bad as box and doc was throwing those inside fastballs at me i wish i'd known what a damn nice guy was all i could think was he must really hate me mariano rivera said doug went through so much adversity to come all the way back and get that no hitter that moment taught me to never never give up. it was feel so proud of what you've been able to do with your life oh because those dark moments where i was i hated myself like the life i was living and didn't know if i

could ever get out of that that old elves and to come full force you know face my palms talk about it admit it and move on to helping others and then did your course like that it's very or warm did you ever think looking back that you might have that too much too soon i think. because it was so good so you don't have to say on that point i would really trade i just wish i would meet better decisions and been more open about what was really going on with me inside great on the revenue thanks for having me on pleasure the book is dogs a memoir by quite good but a great guest for me on kings things on twitter thanks for joining us.

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