 
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. |
Author’s baby picture, before author discovered shirts and pants. So I’m born on the last day of 1962, the same year the Mets came into this world, and now it’s 62 years later, and I’ve turned 62. This feels a bit like a Mets fan’s Logan’s Run endgame. Yet I will go out on a […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, Birthdays, Metsian Milestone Birthdays I have two favorite stealth statistics from the 2024 season. 1) When the Mets bottomed out at 22-33 on May 29, everybody in the National League, save for the Rockies and Marlins, had a better record than them: the three division leaders, the three Wild Card holders of the moment, and six teams with what appeared […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Believe, Math, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year “There are certain figures in American history who have passed into the realm of cultural mythology, as if reality could no longer contain their stories: Johnny Appleseed. Wild Bill Hickok. Davy Crockett. Rickey Henderson.” Maybe somebody else in baseball or sports or life referred to himself in the third person before Rickey Henderson made […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, Jack DiLauro, Moment of Silence, Rickey Henderson For those keeping adjustable score of very recent, relatively quiet Met offseason acquisitions at home, you can pencil in the following: Righthanded pitcher Yuhi Sako. A southpaw counterpart named Brandon Waddell. Jared Young, who plays first. Catcher Chris Williams. Righty Griffin Canning, who maddeningly contained Met bats one day last summer, so I can say, “Him I’ve heard of.” If you […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, Alex Reyes, Brandon Waddell, Carlos Beltran, Chris Williams, Culture, Dave Winfield, David Stearns, Gary Carter, Griffin Canning, Howie Rose, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Offseason Bookkeeping, Perceptions, Pete Alonso, Randy Keisler, Steve Cohen, Team History, Terry Collins, Yuhi Sako It’s the 242 home runs, it’s the 1,777 base hits, it’s the seven All-Star appearances, it’s the matching pairs of Gold Gloves and Silver Sluggers, it’s the 30-30, it’s the Captaincy, it’s the four RBIs in his first postseason series, it’s the four RBIs in his final postseason series nine years later, it’s the electric […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Mets Hall of Fame, Retired Numbers I decided to keep a new list for myself this winter, that of offseason additions. Every time the Mets make a move, no matter how minor, I open a Word file and type in the player’s name and his position; I also add his birth info to the conditional section of my all-time roster so […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Juan Soto, New York, Offseason Bookkeeping, Plotzing, Steve Cohen, Wow Remove some obstacles — like a fence; the Payson Club; construction on the other side of Seaver Way; the Van Wyck; and a creek also identified as a river — and theoretically you could make a direct beeline from right field at Citi Field to Four Points by Sheraton Flushing, the fancy corporate name for […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Juan Soto, Mets Right Fielders, Queens Baseball Convention, Winter Maybe Billy Joel’s Brenda and Eddie could never go back to the green, but I have no compunction about returning to scenes from my own fields of reality. Therefore, I welcome you anew to MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a series counting down just what the title implies. I started […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Billy Joel, Bob Newhart, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Magadan, David Cone, Decades, Donna Summer, Dwight Gooden, Eras, Goodfellas, Julio Valera, Kids in the Hall, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Newspapers, Pat Tabler, Pirates, Roger Angell, The National, Wilson Phillips |
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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