 
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. |
Twice, they’ve been intended to wrap things up; once, that worked. Four times, they’ve been meant to stave off an ending; that purpose was served thrice. Now, the seventh time. We’re striving for staving. Welcome to the two most underrated words in sports: Game Six. Game Seven gets all the laurels before it becomes necessary. Quite […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, 1973 World Series, 1986 Mets, 1986 NLCS, 1986 World Series, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 1999 NLCS, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, 2024 Postseason, Game Six, Team History It’s not so much that if you watch enough baseball, you see something new every day. It’s that if you watch enough baseball, you see something you’ve seen some other day, thus allowing you to perhaps sense what’s coming directly at you. On the surface, the Mets’ come-from-moribund victory over the Brewers Friday night came out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mariano Rivera, Sixth Sense, Yovani Gallardo, Zack Wheeler On the afternoon of October 11, 1986, I was watching the third game of the National League Championship Series. It was the bottom of the ninth inning and the Houston Astros were leading the New York Mets 5-4 and about to go up two games to one with Mike Scott scheduled to pitch the next […] Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years. Forty-three Fridays. This is one of them. You know who wanted the Astros to beat the Mets in 1986? George Bush. Both of them. The elder Bush was the vice president at the time. His home away […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Bobby Ojeda, Charlie Kerfeld, Danny Heep, Dave Smith, Dwight Gooden, Flashback Friday, Gary Carter, George H.W. Bush, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Bass, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Scott, Nolan Ryan, Philip Roth, Rick Aguilera, Roger McDowell 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. I’d love to tell you how I balanced the thus far once-in-a-lifetime sensation of following the 1986 Mets with carrying out my happening social life of […] |
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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