
Francisco Alvarez's Mets return comes with a blueprint to follow
The best-case template was cast in iron in a small hotel room on Aug. 11, 1951. A man named Elven Mantle — “Mutt” to everybody — drove the 163 miles from Commerce, Okla., to Kansas City, Mo., to join his son, Mickey, for Father-Son Day at Municipal Stadium. But it wasn’t exactly a happy occasion. […]