 
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. |
World War II ended in 1945, yet there were handfuls of particularly stubborn Japanese soldiers in far-flung outposts who hadn’t gotten word or refused to believe what they were told about their nation’s surrender. One, Hiroo Onoda, was found to still be fighting a war that was no longer in progress as late as 1974. And […]  43 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Braves, Comebacks, Daniel Murphy, Japanese Soldiers Who Didn't Surrender, Roger Angell This happens, right? Against all playoff probability odds, let alone preseason projections, some team finds the field and proves itself better than imagined, better than its competition, better than its most fervent and loyal supporters dared to dream. This is happening…right? Wright. Brothers and sisters, rub your eyes, pinch your extremities, do a double-, triple- and quadruple-take. Those […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, David Wright, Home Runs, Precedent, Records, Sean Gilmartin, That Thing You Do, Unicorn Scores “Essentially, though, these were young men, seizing the opportunity to make the careers all normal ball players yearn for — victory, earning power, fame, respect. They were no different from the dozens of other young clubs that had suddenly found themselves, all through baseball history, in some dramatic season. The comic origins of the name […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2015 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, First Place, Leonard Koppett, Michael Conforto, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes The pitching’s too good to ever get too down. There’s not a Shaun Marcum reclamation project in the bunch, no Chris Capuano dutifully sucking up innings as if that’s the goal of any given game. One start you get Jacob deGrom, who opposing batters can’t hit; next game it’s Noah Syndergaard, who they can’t touch. In […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Friday Night Lights, Hope, Injuries, Mad Men, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz And then I fell in love Then one day And when I didn’t 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Champions, Dillon Gee, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Peggy Lee, Rico Brogna, Stephen Stills, Tom Seaver A 9-1 game in Pittsburgh. It sounded familiar. It should have. It was the score and scene of the first game the Mets ever won. Oh, those Original Mets. Such infamy is attached to their shortcomings, but when the Mets played that first 9-1 game in Pittsburgh on April 23, 1962, and upped their record to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2015 Mets, Bobby Gene Smith, David Wright, Elio Chacon, Felix Mantilla, Gil Hodges, Harvey Haddix, Jack Lamabe, Jay Hook, Robin Ventura, Tom Sturdivant, Unflattering Comparisons And on the eleventh day, they did precisely what they’d been doing on the ten days that preceded it. They won. It’s a daily exercise with these Mets, now historically so. In front of your frozen but grateful blogger, his shivering photographer pal and scattered others who — like Sharon Chapman and me — value excellence over […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1972 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 2015 Mets, Team History, Winning Streaks I’ll let you in on a little secret about the endless period between baseball seasons: It does end. Who knew? I’m not sorry to see the stretch that commenced with the last out of the last Met season and concludes with the first pitch of the new Met season expire, though since I’ve been doing this stuff here, […] The full moon is callin’ Thursday afternoon, give or take a sidelined shoulder and a tightened hamstring, Spring Training worked as well as it possibly could. A split squad of […] “If I had to sum up in one word what this campaign is all about, that word would be ‘faith’.” So the ones who pitch and the ones who catch what they pitch have reported to where they pitch and catch when it’s too cold to catch […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Cynicsm, Cynnocence, Innocence, Spring Training |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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