Saul Martinez for The New York Times
Brodie Van Wagenen, the Mets’ new general manager, was majoring in communications at Stanford when he was invited out to dinner with his future wife, Molly Knight, and her family in the fall of 1993.
Van Wagenen was an outfielder on the baseball team, Knight was a diver, and her mother’s partner needed no introduction: She was soon to marry Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.
The occasion turned out to be a two-hour meal. In all, Neil and Carol spoke for about eight minutes.