The 60-Year-old Mets: They Were Awesome Before They Were Awesome

Now baseball fans can dream again. Despite all the terrible events happening around the world, fans of 30 teams have the fun of daydreaming every March: freelancers are really worth the money, franchise shooters stay healthy, the promised brilliance of the latest “phenomenon” (to speak to Casey Stengel’s vocabulary). There was once a spring when …