Sandy Alderson remembers his mission at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. The future Marine and Mets GM was just a kid then in 1959, 11 or 12 years old, he said. His dad was stationed there, serving as a captain. And the son took on some hazardous duty.
"At one time during my youth, I was a pinsetter for a bowling alley before they got automatic pinsetters," Alderson told military personnel gathered in the bowling alley at the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn Monday, where Alderson, Mookie Wilson, broadcaster Josh Lewin and Mr.