Mets-Carlos Beltran history shows how surprising this hire really is
The news breaks in the middle of a Friday afternoon — Carlos Beltran hired to manage the Mets! — and all at once a collage of snapshots rolls past the mind’s eye … HAINES CITY, Fla., March 26, 1998 — Under a brutal Florida sun, an old baseball lifer named Tony Muser, the manager of...