Part of HamletHub's "A Whole New You Series" MLB All-Star Dwight Gooden appears at The Ridgefield Playhouse

Four-time MLB All-Star, three-time World Series champion and one of the greatest pitchers of all time, Dwight "Doc" Gooden takes his message of painfully honest addiction and recovery to teens and their families in an inspiring event at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m.

With a fresh and sober view, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off it, Gooden was a soft-spoken, dominating wünderkind who tallied a mountain of strikeouts while leading the 1986 bad-boy New York Mets to a World Series win. Even at that pinnacle, Gooden had already succumbed to a cocaine addiction that would short-circuit his career and personal life. Gooden's story transcends baseball, from his childhood in Tampa raised by a father who was an alcoholic womanizer, to the recent experience of overcoming his own demons on the show Celebrity Rehab.

This event is partially underwritten by Midwestern Connecticut Council on Alcoholism (MCCA) and is part of the "Get Real" Series for Families & Teens, 
Hamlet Hub's A Whole New You Series
and the Moffly Media Entertaining Conversations Series and is underwritten by Ridgefield Prevention Council - Family University and Rudy & Sally Ruggles with partial underwriting by MCCA, Reliance Merchant Services
and The Tutoring Club.

Dwight Gooden won the National League (NL) Rookie of the Year Award in 1984, as he led the league in strikeouts. He went on to win the NL Cy Young Award and a Triple Crown in 1985. While a member of the Yankees, Gooden threw a no-hitter in 1996.