 
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. |
Although baseball has already conducted its winter meetings, winter insists on meeting the rest of us this evening at 10:47 PM Eastern Standard Time. We wish a scintillating solstice to all, yet we’ve got a bigger milestone to mark before the month is out. That’s right: the Baseball Equinox is nigh! At 3:26 AM EST on […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Houser, Baseball Equinox, Decades, Hump Years, Tyrone Taylor You might know Ken MacKenzie was the only Met pitcher to post a winning record in 1962. As calling-card facts go, it is distinctive and enduring and, within the context of a team that inspired its beat writers to track what Leonard Koppett dubbed the “neggie” or negative statistic (like the Mets’ failure to win […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Ken MacKenzie, Moment of Silence, Winning Pitchers Aren’t we supposed to be immune to developing brand new sympathy pains for injured Mets players in December? Mets players aren’t supposed to get injured this time of year unless it’s something like what happened to Tug McGraw in the winter following the Miracle Mets’ world championship of 1969. In his 1974 memoir Screwball, Tug […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ronny Mauricio, Tug McGraw, Wintertime Injuries I count fourteen players with major league experience the Mets have picked up in the past month or so. I feel I recognize five, maybe six of the names. I’ve probably seen a few others as Met opponents but forgotten them. A generous portrayal of their collective appeal would be they provide our team with […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Depth, Free Agents, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Museum Gift Shops, Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Heineman, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Zack Short Met offense is moping along as Met offense has made a habit of doing since its founding in 1962. Then amid the mopery emerges some genuine hope in the form of a Triple-A outfielder who brings to New York a bat loaded with hits, making things a little less mopey, at least for a spell. […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Hamilton, Joe Hicks, Moment of Silence, Polo Grounds A dozen years ago, after some dabbling on ancestry.com, I connected with a same-last-name relative living on the West Coast. She wasn’t exactly distant or long lost, but I’d had only the vaguest notion of her existence, and I don’t think that she’d ever heard of me. Stephanie and I met her and a friend […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Family, Gil Hodges, Joan Payson, Queens Baseball Convention Of all the key offseason hires approved by Steve Cohen, I haven’t seen the name Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong appointed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, or whatever title would imply a person has been brought in to help the Mets figure out what to do next. No wonder she’s not in Flushing, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, David Robertson, Dido, Drew Gilbert, Justin Verlander, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Quick Draw McGraw, Ryan Clifford, Sensible Surrender, Sometimes You Don’t Gotta Believe, South Park, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham I have a few overriding memories of Ron Hodges’s Mets career that aren’t his signature moment in baseball. 1) Memorial Day 1976: The Mets have won the first game of a holiday doubleheader against Pittsburgh. They’re being shut out by Doc Medich in the second game. Ron Hodges hits a home run in the ninth. They […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1984 Mets, Meat Loaf, Mets Catchers, Moment of Silence, Ron Hodges My friend Matt Silverstone. It feels good to write that. It doesn’t feel good knowing I’m writing it because I recently did a little curiosity-driven Internet snooping and discovered Matt died eight years ago. I seem to run into that situation when I start to wonder whatever happened to some old friend of mine with […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blackboard Jungle, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mad Magazine, Matt Silverstone, Moment of Silence, Stand by Me “I call to order the 2023 meeting of the Faith and Fear in Flushing Awards Committee for the purpose of selecting the Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met for the season just past. Before we proceed, is there any old business?” 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Francisco Lindor, Kodai Senga, Most Valuable Met |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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