 
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. |
Hi, I’m a New York Mets fan, and I count among my favorite players of the past 24 hours Pat Burrell, Cody Ross, Matt Cain and a catcher named Molina who came to New York dressed in gray and struck a mighty home run over a left field fence. Quite obviously baseball for a Mets fan […]  22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2006 NLCS, 2010 Postseason, A.J. Burnett, Anniversaries, Bengie Molina, Cody Ross, Endy Chavez, Matt Cain, Michael Kay, Oliver Perez, Pat Burrell It’s a Sunday afternoon in September 1996. I’m at Shea Stadium with my best friend Chuck, diehard Met sympathizer, but better described as a bandwagon rider in terms of his actual Met fandom. Yet in September 1996, there is no bandwagon. There’s just me guilting him into joining me for a game against the Braves. […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Tomberlin, Anniversaries, Billy Joel, Citi Field, Citi Field Tour, Condescension Toward Customers, Mad Men, Marv Throneberry, Mets Pop Culture, Old Dogs, Paul Wilson, Pete Flynn, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Small Time Crooks, The Last Play at Shea, The Rocker It somehow occurred to me last night that it had been exactly five years since I posted the first of what has become a more or less weekly in-season tradition at Faith and Fear in Flushing. When your recollections begin having anniversaries, that probably says something about the way you look at life. Nevertheless, Flashback Friday […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Blogging, Flashback Friday, Labors of Love, Self-Memorialization Fetish I’ve never ordered a screwdriver. Never had one ordered for me. Never mixed one unless you count a fifth-grade Monday morning science fair when I got desperate for a topic the night before and decided my topic would be Mixology, the science of matching drink recipes to astrological signs. I got that from a Southern […] Two annual rituals of the baseball season cross paths in the middle of every Met June: the instinctive recollection of monumental trades that took place this time of year in years gone by and the reappearance, via clever scheduling nobody asked for, of former friends and foes who now wear American League garb. It seems […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, Anniversaries, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Berenyi, Corey Patterson, Dan Norman, Dave Kingman, Doug Flynn, Interleague Play, Juan Samuel, Managers, Manny Acta, Nick Markakis, Pat Zachry, Paul Siebert, Sluggo, Steve Henderson, Tom Seaver, Trades, Ty Wigginton Happy birthday to us! How old are we now? February 16, 2005 is our blue and orange-letter day, having begun this thing of ours precisely a half-decade ago today. Thus, as we blow out the candles, I’d like to share five reflections on five years of blogging […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1995 Mets, 2005 Mets, Anniversaries, Blogging, Carlos Beltran, Gilda Radner, Internal Affairs, Milestones We’re a team. We win together, we lose together, we celebrate and we mourn together. And defeats are softened and victories sweetened because we did them together. It was fairly early in the life of this enterprise, which turns four years old today, that I coined the phrase that passes for its mission statement: the […] In a way, this starts with Willie Randolph as long as he’s still managing our team. Willie Randolph commenced on the New York Mets adventure of a lifetime in the middle of February three years ago, as did Jason and I. Watching Randolph’s Welcome Back press conference Friday, I felt an unusual kinship with Willie. Skip […] The 365th day of the second year of Faith and Fear in Flushing is nearing completion. Tomorrow we, like Reyes to Valentin to Delgado, turn two. We includes you, gentle reader. The comments you post, the e-mails you send and the vibes you put out have convinced me that what we’ve got here is far more […] Fifty-two weeks ago today, you said this and I said that, and we were rolling. And Mettily, we roll along. Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the birth of Faith and Fear in Flushing, coinciding conveniently with the reportage of pitchers, catchers and various uniformed authority figures to right where they belong, on a baseball field; David […] |
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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