‘Terrific’ for New York — how Tom Seaver lifted up the city

On April 22, 1970, after accepting the Cy Young Award as the National League’s best pitcher of 1969 — the year he took the Mets from lovable losers to World Series champions, the year of Woodstock and the moon landing, the year of impossible triumphs at the close of a tumultuous decade — Tom Seaver,...