Baseball fans – and particularly Mets fans, I think – are a lot like dogs: if something happens once, it happens all the time, every time. It becomes instant tradition. It seems that’s how the Baseball Gods want it. We Mets fans used to listen to Ralph Kiner on the broadcasts and he would bluntly [...]
The thing to remember is that he didn’t want to be here. When Keith Hernandez was traded to the Mets on June 15, 1983 – the anti-matter version of the Tom Seaver trade, if you will – he was riding high. As a longtime member of the St. Louis Cardinals, he’d won a batting title, [...]
