NEW YORK _ It wasn't the most reviled deal the Mets ever made _ sending Tom Seaver to the Reds tops that list _ but history showed that dealing Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregosi couldn't have turned out worse for the New York team.
As Ryan, 72, prepares to return to Flushing for a reunion of the 1969 world champions the weekend of June 28, major league baseball's all-time strikeouts leader and Hall of Famer still wonders what might have been had he remained with the Mets.
"I would have liked to have had the opportunity to pitch an extended period of time with Tom," Ryan said in April from his home in Round Rock, Texas.
