By almost universal agreement, the worst baseball team since the nineteenth century was the 1962 expansion New York Mets, a team of has-beens and cast-offs who lost a record 120 games. The erratic slugger Marvelous Marv Throneberry was the emblematic Met. At a key moment, Throneberry walloped a triple,only forgetting the minor detail of touching first and second base—and therefore was out. Watching bonehead moments like this, Mets’ manager Casey Stengel, just two years past his glory days with t