 
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. |
Even Mets fans get to have good days. Honestly, Saturday’s doubleheader with the Braves was about as stress-free as a day dealing with the confounding, confounded 2017 Mets has been. You got drama in both games, with Robert Gsellman and then Steven Matz pitching marvelously but being largely matched by Atlanta competition. But then the drama […]  22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Jay Bruce, Matt Wisler, Steven Matz, T.J. Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes I adored Entourage when it began airing in 2004. Then I tolerated it. Then I asked myself why I was still watching it. Then I rooted for it to go away, yet stuck with it to the bitter end in 2011 because I can be that way. My gripe with the HBO series that ran […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Entourage, Fernando Salas, Robert Gsellman, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes, Yoenis Cespedes's Bat What an impressive young man, that Dansby Swanson. The cut of his jib is first-rate, tip-top, simply splendid. Let me show you a few choice selections from his defensive portfolio Friday night… Hmm, I can’t seem to find any of them. Why, that Dansby Swanson seems to have leapt as from out of nowhere and snatched […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Curtis Granderson, Dansby Swanson, Impressive, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Young Bergino Baseball Clubhouse proprietor Jay Goldberg possesses the wryest of wits. In graciously inviting me to pull up a chair and talk about Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star at his one-of-a-kind shop a few blocks south of Union Square, he offered me the date of June 15. We would discuss my new book, of course, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Deleted Scenes, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mike Piazza, Team History, Tom Seaver My preferences have little impact on determining the outcome of baseball games I sit down to watch, or maybe you’ve noticed the unbroken winning streak the Mets haven’t been on for the past five decades. Nevertheless, I decided I was going to be reasonably content with a Mets loss Wednesday night provided Zack Wheeler and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Elvis Andrus, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Matt Reynolds, Pitcher Wins, Rangers, Yu Darvish, Zack Wheeler Hmm, is that how you spell Milestone Achieved? It looks a little funny, but there’s no wavy red line under it, so I guess it must be correct. As you may have heard, Tuesday’s night game — played in whatever suburb of Dallas that’s considered to be in whatever that park that looks perfectly new but […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Milestones The Mets winning 11 games in a row. 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cal Ripken, Consistency, F2K, Internal Affairs, Lou Gehrig, Milestones, Ray Stevens, Streaks With your first selection of what to do on Thursday night, June 15, at 7 o’clock, I hope you’ll choose to make a visit to Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. in Manhattan. I’ll be there talking about my book Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star with gracious owner and podcast host Jay Goldberg, going […] Jimmy Piersall and the Mets might not have been the best fit when they came together for 40 games in 1963, but no .194 hitter ever left behind a more camera-ready legacy. The story’s been told as much as any from the second season of New York Mets baseball. Piersall, who had his talents and […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Jimmy Piersall, Josh Edgin, Moment of Silence, Neil Walker, Replay Review, Seventh-Inning Stretch, Terry Collins, Tim Harkness, What Now With This Team? Lots of seasons don’t go quite the way you fantasize — your team’s undone by some combination of poor performances, bad decisions, ill health, lousy luck, or just by not being as good as the competition. By late spring you figure your October will be free; by summer you’re thinking about next season. Which is all OK […] |
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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