 
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 yearn to crowd into Times Square and watch the zipper deliver the updates. I hanker to gather around the upright Philco in the parlor and receive the word seconds after it arrives via Teletype. I want Walter Winchell to deal me the dope. Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Batting Crown, Jose Reyes, Matt Kemp, Ryan Braun Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 148th game in any Mets season, the “best” 149th game in any Mets season, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2006 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Mike Piazza, Mike Vail, Steve Trachsel, Team History, The Happiest Recap Short of doing something that will get you arrested, you can’t affect the outcome of a baseball game. Your hooting and hollering does nothing. Neither does praying, cajoling or threatening. Baseball takes no notice of your swaggering overconfidence and ignores your pretend humility. It does not care that you care. It does not care that […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, David Wright, Justin Turner, Ruben Tejada, Superstition, Tony La Russa, Willie Harris It’s not our pennant race, but we were about to make a potentially legendary impact on it. That would’ve been fun. In the bottom of the second, already behind by two, Chris Schwinden couldn’t have appeared much more in danger. Infield hijinks, bloop warfare and the temptation of hitting Rafael Furcal that was just too good […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Chris Schwinden, Jaime Garcia, Josh Satin, Losing Record, Mike Hessman, Spoiler, Willie Harris Sticking with the education theme Yahoo! was kind enough to come up with for us and 29 other contributing blogs, my attention was detained this morning when I saw the following headline on mets.com: Mets’ loss to Cards a valued learning experience Say, I thought, that looks familiar. Where and when have I seen that […] In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Cardinals, Citi Field, David Wright, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Mike Pelfrey, Octavio Dotel, Stats, Storytelling Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 145th game in any Mets season, the “best” 146th game in any Mets season, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1976 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1997 Mets, Carl Everett, Dave Magadan, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jerry Koosman, Team History, The Happiest Recap Our pals over at Yahoo’s Big League Stew sent the 2011 Mets to detention, and sent in me and Greg to scare ’em straight. Here’s what we said. Reaction to Sunday’s rousing win, meanwhile, is over here. Sometimes it’s great when the Mets make a hash of my plans. Getting ready for today’s game, I had a promising albeit rather sorrowful blog post mapped out — it was going to deal with the Cyclones, the Sand Gnats, childhood and the inescapability of Chipper Jones. And that plan held after Chipper doubled in the […] Winning would have been preferable. Winning a bad game beats losing a good game. But since relatively little is at stake on this side of the line score, I can’t say watching a good game lost doesn’t engender its small rewards. I liked watching Ruben Tejada overcome Tim Hudson twice and battle him gamely a third […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chipper Jones, Craig Kimbrel, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Tim Hudson |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
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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