SIGNED BY DWIGHT GOODEN

GOODEN, Dwight. Heat. My Life On and Off the Diamond. New York: William Morrow, (1999). Octavo, original blue and red paper boards, original dust jacket. $175.

First trade edition of this candid autobiography about Gooden's baseball career and drug addiction, signed by him on the title page.

"Few professional baseball careers have had the meteoric rise of Dwight Gooden's. At the age of twenty, in his second season, he became the youngest pitcher ever to win the Cy Young Award. The following year, in 1986, he helped lead the New York Mets to one of the most memorable World Series championships in a seven-game victory over the Boston Red Sox… But Doc Gooden's fall was as quick and dramatic as his rise. By 1994 he had twice been suspended from Major League Baseball for drug abuse, plunging him into a vicious cycle that threatened his career and, ultimately, his life… Heat takes readers through the triumphs—and the nightmares—that have defined a legendary career in baseball." Written with sports journalist Bob Klapisch. Published the same year as a signed limited edition, no priority established.

Fine condition.