 
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. |
Happy days in the hazy summer Several players pushed the New York Mets to the brink of a breakthrough in 2015, but one more than any other was the reason […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Donn Clendenon, Most Valuable Met, Pulp Fiction, Yoenis Cespedes If this is the day you shop online for the holidays — and if you define “the holidays” as the approach of the next baseball season — then do I have a deal for you. Go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and pre-order Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Amazin' Again, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library The Mets were the champions of the National League in 2015 without anybody being officially judged particularly valuable. The Baseball Writers Association of America has an award that declares who’s Most Valuable, and no Met got anywhere near it. Twenty National Leaguers were named on BBWAA ballots and only two of those names belonged to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Awards, Curtis Granderson, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Willie Mays, Yoenis Cespedes, Yogi Berra 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 I straggled home from Game Four of the World Series Sunday at 2:00 AM EDT, which in the instant it took me to look up at the clock, became Sunday at 1:00 AM EST. Standard Time had returned and the Mets were still playing baseball. Not very well on the eve of us gaining our wee […] 109 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Mathematically Eliminated, Matt Harvey, Royals, World Series Ending Happy anniversary to the Mets’ most recent world championship. May we never commemorate it as such again. I love the 1986 Mets. You love the 1986 Mets. We all love the 1986 Mets. But we need them to take a chronological back seat to a new driver of the Met historical narrative. Even the 1986 Mets […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Mets Fan Perspective The temptation after a night like Wednesday, when the New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs, 8-3, at Wrigley Field to sweep the National League Championship Series in four straight games and claim the fifth pennant in franchise history is to say this is what makes being a Mets fan worthwhile. Nonsense. It’s been worthwhile all […] 73 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 National League Champions, 2015 Postseason, Daniel Murphy, Jeurys Familia, Lucas Duda, Worthwhile Maybe all the Mets needed was a little sunshine. The sun makes living things grow. The Mets appeared to be the opposite of a living thing since departing Cincinnati with a division title stuffed in their luggage. Perhaps they were under the impression they had entered the afterlife. Not quite. They had only qualified for it. […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bryce Harper, Closing Day, Jeurys Familia, Karma, Meaningful Gestures There have been 17 champagne celebrations for team accomplishments in New York Mets history. This is a scene from the 17th. Indulge me, Mets fans who weren’t viewers of Mad Men, as I channel Don Draper delivering — à la Matt Harvey on Saturday in Cincinnati — the most impressive pitching we had ever seen […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Division Clinching, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Complete and Utter Lack of Collapse, Mad Men, Monty Python, The Commitments
It’s not a new story any more. In fact it’s a well-worn tale on its way to becoming a cliche. But that’s the fate of stories that resonate with people, that mean something. And this one does. It’s the one I keep coming back to. And it’s worth hearing again. It’s the story of Wilmer Flores, sent […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, David Wright, Faith, Fans, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores |
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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