I don’t usually pay any mind to the baseball draft, not since waiting unsuccessfully for the Mets’ No. 1 pick of 1995 to turn Shea Stadium into Jaroncyk Park. But this headline from mlb.com surely got my attention:
 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
I dressed all wrong for it, of course. The game that Stoneham and I had fixed upon was a midweek afternoon meeting between the Giants and the San Diego Padres in late June — a brilliant, sunshiny day at Candlestick Park, it turned out, and almost the perfect temperature for a curling match. I had […] The accepted folkways of the big league clubhouse escape me. Even having grown up watching a team whose acknowledged leader — the player whose mere presence was and is universally acknowledged to have transformed the attitude of all those around him — was a pitcher, I’ve been hearing all my life that a pitcher can’t […] [H]ere, coming through the same tunnel as so many champions have walked before, the great man, Frank Sinatra, who has the phrasing, who has the control, who understands the composers, who knows what losing means as so many have, who made the great comeback, who stands still, enduringly, on top of the entertainment world. From: Jason Fry To: Greg Prince Date: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Resting Easy With Randy Tate At Last * you should tell retrosheet. seriously, they'd be thrilled. meanwhile, tonight's game already really sucks. From: Jason Fry To: Greg Prince Date: Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:28 PM Subject: Re: Resting Easy With Randy Tate At Last we're gonna win this […] 5: Wednesday, September 24 vs. Cubs If this week is about anything, ladies and gentlemen, it is about this: closure. We say goodbye to Shea Stadium and we aim to do it definitively. We wish to put a bow on a yearlong celebration and tie it tight. We don't want our home of 45 years to […] Bill Parcells (or maybe it's John Madden) likes to glorify football players who so come to play that you can toss the coin in the parking lot and they'll line up at midnight and knock the other guy on his ass. Wherever, whenever…they're ready. I can dig that. I can dig the Mets winning wherever, whenever. […] Hey, Mets! You've just put up a 5-2 homestand, playing the kind of baseball that makes even veteran fans and conspicuous doubters like us double-check that, yes, this was the same homestand that began with everyone wondering if Willie Randolph would emerge from his long-awaited meeting with the Wilpons and Omar still employed. So what's […] The cork shot out of the right field mezzanine in the early evening Saturday, burst out of every section of Shea Stadium, exploded from the souls of Mets fans wherever they were watching or listening. Our bottle had been plugged up tight, but Fernando Tatis pushed from its upper neck the last vestiges of the […] Thanks to Mike Pelfrey’s gutty seven innings, Duaner Sanchez’s perfect eighth, Carlos Beltran’s unleashed power, Fernando Tatis’ clutch timing and Billy Wagner’s one-two-three ninth, I was able to record in The Log its 200th regular-season home win. After four consecutive losses, I was beginning to think it would never happen. But I always think that. I probably […] |
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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