The Mets have as sumed many per sonas across the years, some of them laughable, some of them loveable. This one is laudable. They do not own the rich history of their baseball neighbors, the Yankees. They have spent too many seasons acting as an organization like kid brothers, pining for what they don't have.
But what they do have is legacy of the highest order. They are the spiritual descendants of the Dodgers and the Giants, inheriting the DNA of the two National League clubs who were quickest to embrace the demolition of the color barrier six decades ago. They are the ones who hired the first African-American manager in New York City, the ones who empowered Omar Minaya. Continue
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