Wally Backman is accusing Sandy Alderson of blackballing him in the baseball industry in another twist in the relationship between a favorite of Mets fans and his former team.
“There’s been a bad roadblock, and I know where it’s coming from,” Backman told Bob Klapisch of The Bergen Record (or whatever it calls itself these days). “In the last phone call I had with Sandy (in September) he said, ‘I will do anything I can to help you.’ But he is not an honest man.