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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.
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The Spirit of Spira
by Greg Prince on 21 January 2014 10:56 am Friend of FAFIF Matt Silverman reminds us it’s the time of the offseason to solicit entries for the Greg Spira Baseball Research Award. The award recognizes the “best published article or paper containing original baseball research by a person 30 years old or younger,” which represents an outstanding tribute to Spira, who dedicated much of his all too short life to discovery and dissemination within the sport he loved.
First prize is $1,000, with cash prizes awarded for second and third place as well. Full details on how to submit are here. The deadline for entry is February 15. Please look into it and tell anybody you might think would be interested about it. Thank you.
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Not to be confused with the ghost of Howie Spira, which apparently haunts the halls of Deadspin from time to time….
Howie Spira is Highlanders hijinks. Not on the Madoff or ARod level, but still …
Strange to me you guys went there ’cause Spira equals Greg the excellent research guy in my mind, not the Howie the small-time hood. But just goes to show you last names shed of context can be a Rorshach test.
True. All those poor people named Wilpon or Madoff, not related to the Mets.
Thanks, Greg. Read lots of good articles last year and, as the saying goes (for good reason), the judges had a very tough time parceling out the top three prizes of $1,000, $200, and $100. It would be great to see more entries about the Mets this year. The quality is certainly there.
The quality of the writing that is.