Mets, Giants begin deep dives in GM hunts

When National League baseball returned to New York with the expansion Mets nearly 60 years ago, the team’s colors — blue and orange — were chosen in tribute to the Dodgers and Giants, their NL forebears who moved to the West Coast several years before. Now, the Mets and Giants are linked once more, through parallel searches for new chief executives of baseball operations that are certain to dominate off-field industry conversation over the coming weeks.