 
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. |
The following scene occurred at Caledonian Hospital in Flatbush on this very afternoon in 1962. Or so I’ve decided 59 years after the fact. I know ya might be in th’ mood t’ wail yer lungs out, young feller, what seein’ ya just got yerself born, but no need t’ be spooked. It’s just yer ol’ […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1963 Mets, Birthdays, Casey Stengel, Ed Kranepool, Larry Burright, New Year's Eve, Possibly Apocryphal Origin Stories, Ron Hunt, Tim Harkness Because The Tonight Show was taped in beautiful downtown Burbank, it didn’t seem odd that one summer night in 1979, Johnny Carson would include Tommy Lasorda while doing his Carnac the Magnificent bit. Playing to the Southern California studio audience was one of Johnny’s staples, and Chavez Ravine was certainly within driving distance. Carnac listed […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Sudakis, Dick Tidrow, Don Sutton, Duke Carmel, George Meyer, John Pazman, Mike Marshall, Moment of Silence, Norm Sherry, Phil Lombardi, Todd Feltman, Tommy Lasorda The last two instances of the Baseball Equinox, marking the spot when we sit equidistant between the final out of last season and the scheduled first pitch of next season, were rendered inoperative in retrospect once COVID had its way with them. The opening of the entire 2020 baseball season was pushed back to July […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, 2022 Mets, Baseball Equinox, New Year's Eve, No Guarantees Later this week I’ll be along with the Tenth Annual awarding of the Oscar’s Caps, recognizing the year in Mets Pop Culture. But one Mets pop culture sighting in particular was too big to confine to a sentence or paragraph amid a catalogue of other, albeit worthy sightings (all Mets pop culture sightings are worthy), […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ESPN, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, Mookie Wilson, Nick Davis, Spike Lee In Bicentennial Detroit, when Mark Fidrych was in full flight, The Bird was the word. On TV in the 1950s, a duck delivered the $100 prize to contestants on You Bet Your Life who used Groucho Marx’s secret word. Frankie Valli ruffled few feathers when he informed us repeatedly in the summer of ’78 that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Directions, First Place, Frankie Valli, Groucho Marx, Mark Fidrych, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Suffixes Avery the Cat, not acting as if he’s doing the author any favors. Avery the Cat, who said goodbye to Stephanie and me on Saturday night after more than 16 years of lighting up a room in ways Fred Wilpon and Art Howe could only imagine, hung in there long enough to learn the […] Buck Showalter and the other, now irrelevant candidates for the Mets’ managerial opening were reportedly summoned to Steve Cohen’s home in Connecticut for their respective face-to-face interviews. They probably didn’t travel in quite the style that Casey Stengel did when he was accepting the keys to the Polo Grounds dugout sixty years ago. “We arrived […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Buck Showalter, Casey Stengel, Experience, Mets Managers It’s been the year of Jacob deGrom so often for most of the past decade that you’d think it would be hard to discern when it isn’t the year of Jacob deGrom. Jacob deGrom was named by this blog as the Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met of 2014, 2017 and 2018. Jacob deGrom wasn’t named […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Miguel Castro, Most Valuable Met, Relief Pitching, Trevor May I no longer have to tell you why Gil Hodges belongs in the Hall of Fame, and you no longer have to tell me why Gil Hodges belongs in the Hall of Fame, and we no longer have to tell anybody why Gil Hodges belongs in the Hall of Fame. That’s because Gil Hodges is in […] When your team picks up a player or three at the trade deadline, you bank on capturing lightning in a bottle. Maybe three bottles. An arm or two to get you over. A quick bat attached to some quicker legs and surer hands. Come on over and lift us up. Yesterday we were strangers. Today […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carly Simon, Departures, Javy Baez, Lockout, Marcus Stroman, Rich Hill, Sitcom Tropes, Trade Deadline |
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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