 
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. |
If you still haven’t quite gotten all the bubble gum dust off your fingers, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. I stopped collecting baseball cards a long time ago. But I never stopped accumulating them. That’s what I have, an accumulation. They have gathered. They have piled up. They have snaked their way […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, Baseball Cards, Flashback Friday, Tom Seaver It took ’til the end of summer, but I got a Seaver in 1972. I was so proud that I apparently tacked it to my bulletin board with at least five different pushpins. 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Baseball Cards, Flashback Friday, Tom Seaver For the first time in 33 years, I have Joe Torre’s 1967 Topps card, the first baseball item of any kind I can ever recall latching onto, a dead ringer for the one that my mother threw away in an unprecedented purge of my mess of a room in 1974. Though there is no contemporary […] If you’ve been staring at the same damn face for four decades, chances are it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Some facts I was exposed to when I was 4 years old: In 1960, Joe led the Northern League with a .344 avg. In 1964, Joe led the N.L. with a .994 fielding mark. The young […] This is Willie Mays of the New York Mets as captured by Topps for 1973. I still can’t believe he played for us. Based on content, I think this is my favorite card ever. 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Baseball Cards, Flashback Friday, Willie Mays And I don’t think I ever got Fred Norman. What am I going on about now? Click here. If you’ve almost made it to Saturday, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. I don’t know where I got the notion — maybe from a friend or from someone at school or from watching older kids at the five-and-dime — but one day in 1976 I made up my mind: I’m going […] Truly veteran readers of this blog may recall last year’s incarnation of this post, and so know that THB stands for “The Holy Books.” In which case your geek-proximity alarms just went off and you’re backing slowly away. Everybody else, here’s a quick refresher: I have a pair of binders, dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, […] BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! WARNING! INSANE GEEKERY AHEAD! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! OK, anybody left? Being more than slightly nuts, I have a pair of binders, dubbed The Holy Books by Greg. They contain baseball cards — specifically, one baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re ordered by year, with each year containing a card for […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Al Schmelz, Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, The Holy Books, Tommy Moore Wow, a Royce Ring sighting. That reminds me of a story for an off-day. Be advised that this story has almost nothing to do with actual baseball. In other words…. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Geek Alarm! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! We’ve occasionally discussed The Holy Books, my pair of binders collecting baseball cards for all the Mets since 1962: […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Rich Sauveur, Royce Ring, The Holy Books |
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