(Paul Mirengoff) In 1961, the New York Mets hired the great Rogers Hornsby to prepare a scouting report on every player in major league baseball. The idea was to use Hornsby's reports to help select the players who would make up the Mets when they joined MLB in 1962. According to Jimmy Breslin, in his classic Can't Anybody Here Play This Game, Hornsby found very little to like in the ballplayers of
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