"The modern Mets were similarly for the people but hardly of them, the product of an elite cabal motivated by both self-interest and a sense of civic duty toward bereft Dodgers and Giants fans who couldn’t transfer their allegiance to the long-hated Yankees."
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A new history of the Mets tries to turn the pain of losing into the struggle of class politics.
