Larry Brooks: New York Mets can draw inspiration from 1967 team in bid for brighter future | NYPOST.com

Great column from Larry Brooks:

"There are years in sports that become shortcut references to eras, such as 1965, the gateway between dynasty and a famine, for the Yankees.

But if 1965 is an accepted historical reference point, 1967 deserves our attention as it applies to the Mets, the year the team started to turn the corner on the corner on their way to attaining mythical and miracle status two years later.

No Yankees team would ever invite association with 1965. But it does not damn the 2013 Mets to turn back the pages of the franchise’s history to a year when, for the first time, glimmers of hope shined through a half decade of darkness.

If the answer to the baseball SAT question ever becomes, “1967 is to 1969 as 2013 is to 2015,” well, what Mets fan wouldn’t sign up for that right now?"