 
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. |
Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees FLUSHING, N.Y. (FAF) — A near-batting champion, a defending Cy Young winner and the franchise leaders in saves will all be on the sidelines as the so-called greatest New York Mets World Series team ever prepares to take on its American League opponent in the upcoming Fall Fantasy Classic. While there is much talent assembled on […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2015 Mets, All-Time Mets World Series Team, Fall Fantasy Classic, Gil Hodges, Sandy Alderson, Team History The first time Matt Harvey pitched at Wrigley Field was the best time Matt Harvey pitched at Wrigley Field. In some ways, it was the best time Matt Harvey pitched anywhere. Other dates in his dust-covered portfolio of Harvey Days pop a little more in popular memory — this is a guy who flirted with […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 1969 Mets, 2013 Mets, All in the Family, Amed Rosario, Matt Harvey, Ron Ziegler, Tomas Nido The sample size is only four Saturdays, but I can definitively report that it’s always colder the morning of the Queens Baseball Convention than it was at any point in the preceding week. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes it snows a lot. It snowed so much in 2016 that there was no QBC. That’ll happen in January. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Bobby Valentine, FanFest, Gil Hodges, Mets Fans, Queens Baseball Convention, Tim Teufel, Tom Seaver Maybe Terry Collins should have motivated the Mets more directly once they got to the postseason. Maybe he should have taken a page from Walt Michaels, the Jets head coach who, in the midst of the 1982 NFL playoffs, grabbed his players attention by focusing it squarely on the bottom line. “I remember Walt Michaels walking […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2016 Mets, Antonio Bastardo, Asdrubal Cabrera, Carl Erskine, Football, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Motivation, No Decisions, Postseason Shares, Terry Collins, Walt Michaels, World Series Shares The Cubs and my father are enmeshed in my oft-told Mets fan origin story. It was my dad who’d bring home the Post — when it was an afternoon paper — that featured the recurring cartoon that I credit for sucking me into the ongoing storyline of the 1969 season: the Mets duck doing battle […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Charles Prince, Cubs, Fathers and Sons, Rashomon Once upon a time, the spring of 1969, to be precise, the New York Mets were in the market for a hitter. Sure, other GMs told their Met counterpart Johnny Murphy, we’ll give you somebody. Names like Joe Torre, Richie Allen, even Frank Robinson were floated. All it would cost the Mets was young starting […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, Donn Clendenon, Fair Exchange, John Gant, Johnny Murphy, Jon Matlack, Michael Fulmer, Steve Renko, Team History, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes They played cricket at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon. I tuned in to ESPN3 to watch. It was only for a few minutes, but when I learned it was being aired somewhere, I had to look. I had to look at something going on at Citi Field. It had been too long. Nothing that isn’t the 2015 […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Cricket, Discounted Merchandise, Mourning, Resentment What used to be trivia is now widely disseminated fact, so there’ll be no wowing you with the historical nugget that the Mets have never won the first game of a World Series. Don Buford, Ken Holtzman, Bruce Hurst, Jose Vizcaino and Alex Gordon — among others — have seen to that. And if the […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Alcides Escobar, Alex Gordon, Bartolo Colon, Believe, Car Trouble, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Don Buford, Eric Hosmer, Fathers and Sons, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer Baseball is a game played nine to a side, with wheeling motion and shifting fielding assignments and set plays and so much else. But each play starts not with nine people doing multiple things, but with one person doing one thing: The pitcher takes the ball and throws it in the direction of home plate. When […] 59 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Citi Field, Clayton Kershaw, David Wright, Dodgers, Ed Charles, Justin Turner, Ron Swoboda, Steven Matz |
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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