The youngest recipient was Dwight Gooden ( age 20 in 1985 ).

* 1964 – Dwight Gooden, American baseball player

Similarly, the ace of the 1986 team, Dwight Gooden, threw his no-hitter for the Yankees ( in 1996 ), and David Cone, who starred for the Mets from 1987 – 1992, threw a perfect game later in his career, also as a Yankee.

* 1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954.

However, one of those hits was a Darryl Strawberry home run which tied the game at 1 – 1, as Dwight Gooden matched Ryan pitch for pitch.

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

With the Yankees, he showed flashes of his former brilliance, belting 11 home runs in a part-time role and helping his team win the World Series in 1996 alongside former Mets teammates Dwight Gooden and David Cone.

Strawberry appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated seven times: five times by himself, once with Don Mattingly, and once with Dwight Gooden.

* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Dwight Gooden, Major League Baseball

Dwight Eugene Gooden ( born November 16, 1964 ), nicknamed " Doc Gooden " or " Dr. K ", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

A native of Tampa, Florida, Dwight Gooden was drafted in the first round in, the fifth player taken overall.

In July 1995, the famous longstanding Dwight Gooden times square mural was replaced with a Charles Oakley mural.

The Dwight Gooden mural was a part of the NYC landscape for over ten years.

Dwight Gooden on September 28, 2008

Rick won the Cy Young Award with a unanimous vote, beating out Dwight Gooden and Bruce Sutter.

A Dwight Gooden fastball broke his hand in May 1988, and he was disabled for much of 1988 and part of 1989.

* Dwight Gooden ( b. 1964 ), American baseball player

Management also had a say in the switch-hitting careers of Bob Gibson and Dwight Gooden.

Wei-Yin Chen, Tom Seaver, Sandy Koufax, Dwight Gooden and Chan Ho Park were often described as the paramount pitchers with this kind of ball action.

Other notable curveball pitchers since 1900 are / were Barry Zito, Adam Wainwright, Sal Maglie, Dwight Gooden, Nolan Ryan, David Wells, Darryl Kile, Matt Morris, Orel Hershiser, Aaron Sele, Tommy Bridges, Bert Blyleven, Steve Carlton, and Mordecai " Three Finger " Brown.

Hernandez finished second in the NL Most Valuable Player voting behind Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, and emerged as the Captain of the Mets ' young core of ballplayers that included 1983 Rookie of the Year Darryl Strawberry, Ron Darling, Wally Backman and Rookie of the Year, Dwight Gooden.

The Mets had three players finish in the top ten in NL MVP balloting that season ( Dwight Gooden 4th, Carter 6th and Hernandez 8th ).

Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.

William Dwight Schultz ( born November 24, 1947 ) is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist.

Elton John was born Reginald Dwight but changed his name by deed poll, making Elton John his real name.

Marv was born in the Projects and they make Dwight sick.

Dwight Stone, who played for the NY Jets, Carolina Panthers, Pittsburgh Steelers was born in Florala on January 28, 1964.

* Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803 – 1895 ), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, an evangelical abolitionist who was born in town, where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate New York.

* Dwight Hicks ( born 1956 ), former player for the San Francisco 49ers.

Timothy Dwight was born May 14, 1752 in Northampton, Massachusetts.

His paternal grandfather Colonel Timothy Dwight, was born October 19, 1694, and died April 30, 1771.

His father, a merchant and farmer known as Major Timothy Dwight, was born May 27, 1726, graduated from Yale in 1744, served in the American Revolutionary War, and died June 10, 1777.

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Denison, and is by far the city's most notable resident.

* Dwight A. York, Wisconsin State Assemblyman, was born in New Lisbon.

Robert B. Anderson, who served as Secretary of the Treasury, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Navy during Dwight Eisenhower's administration, was born in Burleson on June 4, 1910.

* Dwight Yorke ( born 1971 ), Trinidad and Tobago football player

Dwight David Yoakam ( born October 23, 1956 ) is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music.

Saad Muhammad was also part of a group of world light heavyweight champions who became Muslims and changed their names during his era as a Light-Heavyweight, the others being Eddie Mustafa Muhammad ( born as Eddie Gregory ), and Dwight Muhammad Qawi ( born as Dwight Braxton ).

Rodney Dwight " Rod " Grams ( born February 4, 1948 ) served the state of Minnesota in both the United States House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate.

She was born June 9, 1752 and died September 20, 1807, and was the daughter of Brigadier General Joseph Dwight of Great Barrington and his second wife, the widow Abigail Williams Sargent.

# Henry Dwight Sedgwick, born April 18, 1784 and died March 1, 1785.

# Henry Dwight Sedgwick, born September 22, 1785, married Jane Minot ( 1795 – 1859 ) and died December 23, 1831.