This is a story about cancer, and baseball, and how they intersected over a week in the life of the Mets.
Two weeks ago, Sandy Alderson was sitting in the waiting room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Alderson, the Mets’ general manager, has been cancer-free since May 2016, but he has to go for checkups every four months.
While waiting, Alderson picked up the spring issue of the hospital newsletter. The cover story — written in the first person — was about a fervent Chicago Cubs fan named Abby Wood, and how her favorite team and her lucky Cubs hat helped her get through her battle with lymphoma.