 
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. |
The studio has a few notes on the next installment of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. ***19. 1998  1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1998 Mets, Al Leiter, Bobby Valentine, Carlos Baerga, Dennis Cook, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hideo Nomo, John Franco, John Olerud, Masato Yoshii, Mike Piazza, Mustaches, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Notes, Rey Ordonez, Rick Reed, Steve Phillips, Todd Hundley, Turk Wendell Welcome back to Faith and Fear in Flushing’s recently dormant series 3B-OF/OF-3B, an attempt to understand why the New York Mets have spent so much of their (and our) lives trying to fit guys who play one position well at a position where they inevitably less well. Or, if you care to be sanguine about […] 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. Some political raconteur (no one agrees exactly who) tattooed George H.W. Bush with the line that he reminded every woman of her first husband. It’s a good line — a put-down, but one delivered […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1992 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bobby Valentine, Mike Piazza, Todd Hundley Happy one-month anniversary of when the Mets started playing games that didn’t count, don’t count and won’t count until April 3. Spring Training schedules don’t traditionally engender milestones while in progress, but this year, with the World Baseball Classic motivating early birds everywhere, what we call “spring” began in earnest amid the indisputable dead of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Connecticut, L.J. Mazzilli, Lee Mazzilli, Mad Men, Rico Brogna, Ryder Chasin, Spring Training, Staples High School The sample size is only four Saturdays, but I can definitively report that it’s always colder the morning of the Queens Baseball Convention than it was at any point in the preceding week. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes it snows a lot. It snowed so much in 2016 that there was no QBC. That’ll happen in January. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Bobby Valentine, FanFest, Gil Hodges, Mets Fans, Queens Baseball Convention, Tim Teufel, Tom Seaver As recent election returns go, I suppose this set rates no more than a shrug in the scheme of scary things, but it’s baffling that there was very recently a vote concerning excellence in baseball announcing in which Gary Cohen was a nominee, yet Gary Cohen did not emerge as the winner. Talk about the system […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Boisclair, Chris Christie, Curious Choices, Gary Cohen, Kaz Matsui Saturday was Valentine’s Day, providing those us of who still adore from chronologically afar the occasion’s namesake a moment to recall the improvement Bobby Valentine’s Mets produced in his first full year at the helm. After finishing 71-91 in 1996 (a campaign he took over with 31 games remaining), the 1997 Mets delightfully surprised their […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Davey Johnson, Duane Below, Gil Hodges, John Mayberry Jr., Managers, Michael Cuddyer, Sean Gilmartin, Terry Collins, Willie Randolph Congratulations to Elliot, Bill and Joe, three Mets fans whose love for their team dovetailed well with our Valentine’s Day contest. For answering yesterday’s quiz, each wins a copy of The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973), the first volume of the four-volume series that tells the story of the New York Mets’ first 50 years through […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Ellis Valentine, Greg Harts, The Happiest Recap (The Book) POST-VALENTINE’S DAY NOTE: We have our winners. Thanks for playing. Happy Valentine’s Day! Romantic holiday and all, but flowers, chocolates, Vermont Teddy Bears, hoodie-footie pajamas and $63 Opening Day tickets in Promenade are all passé. The real sweethearts out there give copies of The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973) no matter the date or occasion. Why? Let […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Ellis Valentine, Greg Harts, The Happiest Recap (The Book) Larry Jones has been hard to miss, but we’ll manage. First responder caps…Bobby Valentine embroiled in controversy…wondering how the Mets are going to handle Chipper Jones… What decade is this anyway? I’m not in the mood to be overly outraged at the moment, so I’ll just say I agree with Jason’s assertion that the Mets are […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2001 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Caps, Chipper Jones |
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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