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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.
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Mets Yearbook: 1963
by Greg Prince on 16 December 2009 12:06 pm 
Thursday night (12/17) at 7:30 marks the fifth and oldest to date installment of Mets Yearbook on SNY. It’s 1963 and, based on my previous viewing of this particular highlight film, it promises to be a gem among gems. That’s sayin’ something considering the channel has batted 4-for-4 with a quartet home runs thus far. I hope you saw 1968, which was as trippy as any acid dropped at the Chicago Democratic Convention that August. I hope you’ve seen them all. These are the best half-hours you’ll enjoy all offseason, save perhaps for the impending Ryota Igarashi introductory press conference.
Nah, these are better.
Image courtesy of kcmets.com.
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[…] and it was 2009 on SNY. Then the rain got to be too much and they put a tarp on the field and the 1963 Yearbook on the air. It cheered me up. That team won 51 games and was a signpost of progress relative to […]