 
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. |
So. I pretty much took the winter off. I was busy with my other dorky obsession, writing books related to this oddball space-fantasy movie you might have heard of. But that’s an excuse. I was weirdly disengaged — to an extent that began to worry me. Granted, my disengaged would be a lot of folks’ full-throated fandom. […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books, Yadier Molina Spring Training is ideal for taking pictures of Mets and printing them on cardboard. Jose Reyes, third baseman (!), evokes 1969 on his 2018 Topps Heritage card, which is the idea behind Topps Heritage, a time machine that propels current players 49 years back in time. Not every card then, never mind now, was shot in […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Jerry Koosman, Jose Reyes, Port St. Lucie, St. Petersburg Should this have been written in 2017? Perhaps. But in an off-season as exciting as this one, it’s hard to find a place for evergreen features. (First of many sighs.) Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, A.J. Ramos, Adam Wilk, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Chase Bradford, Chasen Bradford, Chris Flexen, Dominic Smith, Jacob Rhame, Jamie Callahan, Kevin McGowan, Neil Ramirez, Nori Aoki, Paul Sewald, Phillip Evans, The Holy Books, Tomas Nido, Tommy Milone, Travis Taijeron, Tyler Pill Congratulations to Travis Taijeron, he of the almost-invariably mispronounced last name, on his first big-league hit. And congratulations to Joey Votto for continuing to be Joey Votto. The Reds’ star demolished a ball thrown by Jeurys Familia for a home run, then gave high-fives, his bat and uniform top to a kid battling cancer. (And note […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Baseball Cards, Brooklyn Cyclones, Debuts, Joey Votto, John Toner, Minor Leagues, Travis Taijeron Timing really is everything. My kid and I got on a plane to Iceland a few minutes after the end of the Mets’ victory over the Cubs and returned a few hours before the first of their check-for-pulse efforts against the Dodgers. While overseas and four hours down the clock, I checked in on our stalwarts […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Baseball Cards, Gregg Jefferies, Jose Reyes, The Holy Books We’ve not yet reached the longest day of the year, but Zack Wheeler was off the mound and in the clubhouse before literal darkness descended over Citi Field Tuesday night, so either it’s staying light later or the pitchers are growing short. Or both. Wheeler’s reign as undisputed Mets ace lasted one turn of the improved rotation, […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rizzo, Baseball Cards, Cubs, Ian Happ, Skip Lockwood, SNY, Summer Solstice, Zack Wheeler I’ll admit that I’ve grown blase about pitchers and catchers reporting. OK, more than blase — indifferent, jaded, cynical, all of the above. Obviously this has nothing to do with a disdain for baseball basics. Rather, it’s that the happy moment is a mere moment. Yes, those are Mets pitchers and Mets catchers out there doing vague baseball […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Spring Training, The Holy Books The Baseball Equinox is behind us, meaning we’re closer to 2017 Mets baseball than we are to the 2016 variety — a comforting thought with the teeth of winter pearly and bared. But we still have 2016 Mets business to attend to, namely the offering of formal greetings to those who joined the orange-and-blue ranks […] I’ve spent a good chunk of the winter sulking about Jeurys Familia quick-pitching or Yoenis Cespedes playing base-soccer or Daniel Murphy bringing the glove up or Cespedes charging off first on a soft liner or Terry Collins being too sentimental or Lucas Duda being unable to make a simple throw home or getting to the big stage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Graham, Charlie Neal, Dennis Musgraves, Dick Rusteck, Jerry Grote, Jerry Hinsley, Joe Hicks, Lost Mets, Minor Leagues, Ray Daviault, Rod Kanehl, Sammy Drake, Shaun Fitzmaurice, Ted Schreiber, The Holy Books, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter Those of you who’ve waited with bated breath for this annual feature (pause for crickets), my apologies — blame paid work competing for my time and the curdling of my attitude about the 2015 World Series from acceptance to anger, a psychological ambush I’ll delve into one of these days. Background: I have a trio of binders, long […] |
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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