 
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. |
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. When I was a teenager, a lot of people assumed I’d be a sportswriter. Which made a lot of sense: I loved baseball and writing, so why not put the two together? But I […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Beane, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Daulton, Dave Smith, Fenway Park, Lenny Dykstra, Marty Noble, Oil Can Boyd, Phillies, Ron Darling, Wally Backman Back in June, Emily and I decided that a lovely summer night would be made even better by our attending a ballgame. So we did … and watched the Mets get no-hit by Chris Heston and the San Francisco Giants. I grumbled and groaned for competitive and aesthetic reasons. The competitive reasons for not wanting my […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Billy Beane, Chris Heston, Dodgers, Max Scherzer, Nationals, No-Hitters, Panic City In the spring of 1980, the New Yorker’s Roger Angell was making his incomparable annual rounds and alighted on St. Petersburg for a morning B-squad game between Joe Torre’s Mets and their neighbors, Ken Boyer’s Cardinals. The rookie getting everybody’s attention that March was St. Louis’s big first baseman Leon Durham — “he is called […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, Al Harazin, Billy Beane, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Roberts, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Leon Durham, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Cubbage, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Team History, Vince Coleman |
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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