Gooden to visit Strawberry
Posted: Monday October 05, 1998 10:18 PM
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Dwight Gooden (above) plans to visit Strawberry before the Yankees and Indians play Game 1 on Tuesday night AP |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Darryl
Strawberry remained hospitalized Monday, recovering from cancer surgery
but cheered by a visit from New York Yankees
teammates, who showed him the caps they will wear in his honor during the
AL Championship Series.
Strawberry had a 2 1/2-inch cancerous tumor removed from his colon
Saturday and remained hospitalized Monday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center. Doctors think the cancer has not spread and are optimistic.
Dwight
Gooden, his close friend and former New York Mets teammate,
plans to visit Strawberry before the Yankees and Indians play Game 1 on
Tuesday night.
"Any time you see a good friend like that go through something like
that," Gooden said, "you feel for that person."
About half a dozen Yankees visited Strawberry on Sunday and more said
they were going following Monday's workout.
"I couldn't have been more pleased," Yankees manager Joe Torre said.
"Straw was very alert. He looked real good. I mean, he was sitting up. Of
course, the one complaint he had is he is not going to be able to eat for a
couple of days.
"But he shook hands with everybody, and we really had to say, 'Let's go,'
because he was chatting away."
The Yankees players gave Strawberry a cap with his No. 39 stitched on the
back, and told him they plan to wear similar caps during the playoff series
against Cleveland.
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