The "C" Word

As in Collapse.

 

Here’s the lede in today’s NY Times’ sports section: “As mortified fans watch the Mets fritter away their once-commanding grip on first place in the National League East, dread infects the city that it might be witnessing a collapse of unprecedented proportions.”

 

Bigger than the ’64 Phillies? We’ll see. But I have it on good authority from my Washington, DC political reporter friend PK that Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning’s office is fielding a surge of press phone calls asking for his recollections of the last two weeks of the 1964 season.