Today is the last fiftieth anniversary of any day in 1968, the last year whose baseball season I don’t personally remember. No memories whatsoever. When I think of the 1968 baseball season, I think of sitting on the edge of my bed in some undetermined year a […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1968 Mets, 1978 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1998 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2018 Mets, Al Leiter, Birthdays, Craig Swan, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, PItching Sure, Oscar Madison’s column was a big deal in the New York Herald sports section, but who made sure Oscar’s copy made its way from Oscar’s messy desk to his editor? None other than his secretary Myrna Turner. The same Myrna Turner who made halftime history showing off her […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Luplow, Billy Connors, Chuck Taylor, Dan Ingram, Dave Anderson, Ed Charles, Frank Lary, George H.W. Bush, Jack Hamilton, Jerry Moses, Johnny Lewis, Larry Eisenberg, Larry Miller, Lee Leonard, Mets Pop Culture, Moment of Silence, Neil Simon, Oscar's Cap Awards, Penny Marshall, Peter Simon, Philip Roth, Rusty Staub, Stan Lee, Tommy Moore, Tracy Stallard, William Goldman, William Nack At first he lingered in the shadows of 2018, less an afterthought than a forethought swiftly whisked to the side. In the running log I kept of the large and small details that filled the Mets season (not to be confused with this here blog), his name […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, 2018 Mets, Captain, David Wright, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year Even Eartha Kitt, whose memos to the North Pole were famously insistent, would be grudgingly impressed with what the new general manager of the New York Mets has done seven weeks into his term. He’s brought us a renowned middle-of-the-order bat; a dazzling reliever to close ninth innings; […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Catchers, Christmas, Eartha Kitt, Gary Carter, Noah Syndergaard, Wilson Ramos I must have read something in Baseball Digest or The Sporting News. Or maybe I saw something on This Week in Baseball or heard a mention on NBC one Saturday afternoon. Somewhere early in his career, I formed the impression that Harold Baines was a really good ballplayer, one of the best […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hall of Fame, Harold Baines, Lee Smith, Phil N. deBlank Now — and again — pitching and batting ninth for the New York Mets, Number Twenty-Seven… Jay-uh-reese… There haven’t been too many Mets whose first name gets pronounced with such diversity, but however […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Free Agents, Jeurys Familia, Recidivist Mets Our co-newest Met is wearing a familiar number. Flamethrower Edwin Diaz, whom I already appreciated for being really good before discovering his nickname is “Sugar,” will wear 39. That’s no particularly big thing in the annals of Met lore: the first 39 that pops into my head is Gary Gentry, the blueprint for all too many […] It occurs to me that I haven’t been exceedingly happy when greeted by offseason news of a fresh Mets acquisition (meaning a Met who hadn’t declared free agency sticking around, basically meaning Yoenis Cespedes twice) since the trade for Johan Santana nearly eleven years ago. He was Johan Santana, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Brodie Van Wagenen, Bull Durham, Edwin Diaz, Gerson Bautista, Jarred Kelenic, Jay Bruce, Justin Dunn, Robinson Cano, The West Wing, Trades In a “win now” world, give it up for a Met who helped us win then, Wilmer Flores. Brodie Van Wagenen sure did. Actually, he gave up Wilmer Flores, authorizing the non-tender of the cuddliest of Mets on Friday somewhere between his high-stakes wheeling and go-for-it dealing.
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