 
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. |
Past Here’s a sign of spring: The 2014 Topps cards are out. Let’s not go overboard: This isn’t the greatest set. The photography’s good again, but Topps has developed an unfortunate predilection for novelty shots, with far too many players romping with teammates (and often on dreaded horizontal cards), getting doused with Gatorade or showing off Oscar […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolo Colon, Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Hope, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Stephen Drew, The Holy Books, Trades, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Well, Yankees fans hate the Red Sox … if the Cardinals win again at least Carlos Beltran gets a ring … Hmm. You know what? Never mind that for now. It’s time to welcome the latest budding immortals and dudes you’ve already forgotten who make up the THB Class of 2013. Background: I have a trio of […] Late June is a great part of the baseball season as it is — springtime has turned into summer, the pennant races are taking shape, the draftees are reporting to their first professional clubs, and short-season ball returns. (I just made my first trip back to MCU Park. More on that in a future post.) It’s […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bob Stanley, Chris Woodward, Minor Leagues, Ruben Gotay, Ryota Igarashi, Tim Redding, Travis d'Arnaud We’re into the mid-’90s, and the makeover of The Holy Books … well, it’s dragging a bit. I’ll sum up the problem with a string of numbers: 45, 22, 19, 20, 17, 35, 8, 9, 10, 8, 13, 13, 9, 17, 9, 14, 16, 14, 13, 15, 13, 12, 15, 12, 10, 13, 4, 14, 20, […] What’s wrong with this picture? Let’s instead go with what’s right about it. This card was brought to my attention a couple of months ago and I can’t get it out of my head. It’s a veritable diner placemat that urges you to find all the things that are wrong with it while you […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Baseball Cards, Chris Cannizzaro, Polo Grounds, Team History Greg is inputting even more data into the FAFIF Contest-a-Tron 2012 — you should see the smoke coming out of that poor machine. Contest coming soon — in the meantime, here’s the eighth go-round for a Faith & Fear tradition…. Jason Bay is gone, but R.A. Dickey still might be going. That’s how it goes these […] The latest batch of old photos auctioned off by Topps on eBay includes this gem — a shot of World Series hero Tommie Agee taken at Shea in 1970, if Topps’s records are to be believed. The Topps Vault, as it’s called, has yielded lots of gems — I bought a photo of Hank McGraw, Tug’s […] Perhaps you share my conviction that there’s Opening Day and then there’s Everything Else. We just had Opening Day. It was real and it was spectacular. But by Saturday, it was over. So on to Everything Else! Onto the second game of the season! Onto Citi Field at Shea Stadium! If they’re having more than one […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, David Wright, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Texting Gloves The Holy Books have their share of oddities, from Lost Mets to weirdo minor league cards to guys with one career at-bat. But the oddest card of all comes in the section reserved for the 1961 Expansion Draft. That section includes the 22 players chosen by the Mets to stock their inaugural roster from the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Baseball Cards, Lee Walls, The Holy Books Some lineup! I haven’t had the opportunity to open a freshly waxed pack of 2012 Topps baseball cards yet (it won’t truly be spring until I do), but I got to do something just about as good, probably better, a couple of weeks ago when my friend Sharon and I visited the Met. Not the […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Giants, Pumpsie Green, Willie Mays |
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