Chamberlain said Dwight Gooden, Shane Spencer and Victor Cruz have been through similar situations. “I would love to have dinner with [Lin], just to listen to the things he’s gone through in this short amount of time,’’ Chamberlain said. “We probably...

Hamilton's history remind us, having millions of reasons to stay clean is no guarantee of anything. It gets the rich and the poor, the famous and the forgotten, those with everything ahead of them and nothing left. Even in a sports landscape littered...

There are so many examples of this that they almost defy counting -- a 19-year-old Dwight Gooden matures early, just a year out of high school and can suddenly throw a 97 mph fastball past experienced major league hitters. Another example? ...

You hear this about Starlin Castro, for instance. Sure, it often works out that way. But not always. Kaline, one of the all-time greats, probably had his BEST year at age 20. Dwight Gooden definitely had his best year at age 20. Vada Pinson, Claudell...

The Home Run Apple was so much a fixture of Shea that it had to be saved and placed on display at the new stadium. Jim Cooper/Getty Images In May of 1980, the Mets decided on a new marketing campaign. The slogan was "the magic is back". As part of this...

"The reason I caught the deep end to it is because I'm black," he said. "The bottom line is the game carries a lot of bigotry, and that was an easy way for them to do it. If I wasn't outspoken and a so-called 'proud black man,' maybe I would have...