Ray Knight's memories of 1986 include standing between Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry about to fight on bus
Ray Knight called back last night, and we talked a lot about his uneasy separation from the Mets all these years. Here's the story. Knight is a great quote, a great storyteller, and I didn't have time to get into much else in my story. Here's Knight on the closeness of '86 team:
"Darryl confided in me a lot. Gary and I were basically locker-mates. They sometimes went at it. I don’t know if it was their egos. Or just how far apart they were personality wise.
"We were on the bus in St. Louis. A lot of fans were asking Gary for his autographs and picture. And as you know Darryl had coined the phrase Camera Carter because he said Gary was always posing for pictures. It was just a way for Straw to get under Gary’s craw a little bit.
"Gary would respond when he said that, so Straw would say it anytime he could. Gary would come back with, and I laugh because I haven't thought of this in a while, he called him Doberman because Darryl’s ears, Gary thought they were funny looking.
"So anyway, we were sitting there, oh, it couldn’t have been more than two or three minutes waiting for Gary. Straw yells out of the bus, 'Let’s go Camera Carter. You're holding everything up! Get the blank on the bus!
"And so when Gary got on the bus he started heading to the back of the bus for Straw. They' exchanged words. I stood up between them and they calmed down. There were things like that that happened all the time. The next night if Darryl hit a big home run, or Gary did, they would be high-fiving, hugging, like it never happened."
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