This is about how an ordinary man can seize one extraordinary moment, as much as anything. The coming weeks and months will be a glorious celebration of the golden anniversary of the Mets’ golden summer, and all the wonderful memories forever attached to it.
For my money, there is one moment that symbolizes what happened to the Amazin’ Mets in that summer and fall of 1969 better than any other.
“Who wouldn’t want to be defined by the best thing you ever did?” Ron Swoboda says over the telephone, and the laughter that follows is full and it’s genuine.