Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 37th game in any Mets season, the “best” 38th game in any Mets season, […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, 1981 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, George Stone, Greg Harris, Mookie Wilson, Team History, The Happiest Recap My sister gave me the news thirty years ago this morning: John Lennon was murdered last night. My first thought was the next thing Suzan said: “Now they’ll never get back together.” Lennon’s assassination (which always sounded strange, in that politicians got “assassinated,” but what else could you call it?) was one of those events that just […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, 1981 Mets, 2011 Mets, Anniversaries, Boof Bonser, D.J. Carrasco, Dave Winfield, Frank Cashen, Free Agents, John Lennon, Patience, Ronny Paulino, Sandy Alderson Weather.com says the high in Zip Code 11368 today was 74 degrees. What a waste of temperature. I get why there’s a blank spot on the schedule between the first home game and the second home game, but nevertheless, Safety Day is a terrible way to follow up Opening Day, particularly an Opening Day as sweetly […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, 1997 Mets, Blue Point Toasted Lager, Catch of the Day, Jane Jarvis, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Mike Herbst, Ray Ramirez, Rod Barajas While sitting here hopng the J-E-T-S will B-E-A-T the Chargers (and coming up with reasons to dislike the City of San Diego…stupid zoo), I’ve been kindly sent a link to a segment of vintage Art Rust, Jr. from 1981, at the beginning of his tenure on WABC. It’s a Spring Training show during which Art […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, Art Rust, Craig Swan, Joel Youngblood, Radio Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 358 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 4/29/81 W Pittsburgh 0-2 Roberts 1 4-11 […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 358 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 8/15/81 Sa Philadelphia 2-1 Leach 1 5-13 […] In this notebook is scrawled the history of every official Major League Baseball game I’ve ever attended. Each Flashback Friday in 2008 will be devoted to culling its numbers and telling its tales, starting with the night in 1981 I began filling in its blanks. As the Western World waits to learn of the drawn-out fate of the revered Joe Torre, it’s nice to know that history repeats itself. Thanks to a link from the one and only Metstradamus, we are reminded that a less revered Joe Torre was fired from his New York managerial perch once before. And that we […] I expected to attend my the 25th-anniversary reunion of my high school class Saturday night. I followed the directions until I saw the sign outside that said WELCOME CLASS OF 1981. I went inside, grabbed my nametag and affixed it to my lapel. Talk about embarrassing. Like in one of those sitcoms, the first guy who […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, Dan Boitano, Dyar Miller, Greg Harris Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them…sort of. So I’m sitting here sorting through more 1986 memories. Just like that, it’s 27 Fridays down and only 16 Flashbacks to go. So much Baseball Like […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2001 Mets, Flashback Friday |
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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