Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 88th game in any Mets season, the “best” 89th game in any Mets season, […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1999 Mets, Davey Johnson, Fiftieth Anniversary, Matt Franco, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tug McGraw • The Mets are holding a blood drive on Thursday, July 7, at Caesars Club, 10 AM to 5 PM (enter through the Hodges VIP gate; parking available in Lot G at Roosevelt & 126th). You open up a vein to help save lives and the Mets will thank you with two tickets for a […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, Blood Drive, Davey Johnson, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Roger Hess's Climb Up Denali As Games Behind go, my rule of thumb for holding out the slightest Met hope before September is 7½. I adopted it in August of 1973. The Mets were buried in the National League East cellar, but it was a shallow enough grave so that I could invest a modicum of faith in the concept […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Brian McCann, Davey Johnson, Defiance, Jerry Manuel, Life Support, Mike Pelfrey, Nolan Ryan, Thirds, Wally Backman “Thank you. This is really, really amazing. And it feels so good to be home.” So said Doc Gooden Sunday as he was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame, and he couldn’t have been more correct — for him or for us. On some level, Dwight Gooden’s been wandering the periphery of Metsdom […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Mets Hall of Fame I was no fan of Whitey Herzog’s when he was The Enemy in the middle and late 1980s. Man, did I hate those Cardinal teams, probably more than I hated the Bobby Cox Braves of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Durocher’s Cubs, Leyland’s Pirates or Charlie Manuel’s Phillies of recent vintage. That’s a lot of […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Davey Johnson, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Managing, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History, Whitey Herzog With Bobby Valentine’s non-hiring as manager of the Florida Marlins proving once again his predecessor’s 1973 utterance about it not being over until is over oh so true, one wonders if the key credential on his managerial résumé is the item that quietly did him in. Bobby V won a pennant for the Mets, yet […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Howe, Bobby Valentine, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Davey Johnson, Frank Howard, Fred Wilpon, George Bamberger, Gil Hodges, Grudges, Jeff Torborg, Jeff Wilpon, Jeffrey Loria, Jerry Manuel, Joe Frazier, Joe Torre, Managing, Marlins, Mets Managers, Mike Cubbage, Ownership, Roy McMillan, Salty Parker, Team History, Wes Westrum, Willie Randolph, Yogi Berra It’s nice to know who you are, even if you don’t always buy into it, even if who you are keeps on changing. For example, per a request made here several weeks ago, Andre Dawson will be going into the Hall of Fame as a Montreal Expo, making thousands of dispossessed ‘Spos fans (if not […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2010 Mets, Andre Dawson, Bobby Valentine, Davey Johnson, Expos, Fernando Tatis, Generation K, Identity, Josh Fogg, Six Feet Under, Soilmaster Stadium, Uncertainty Four for four: the Mets went 4-for-4 today. They resumed baseball activities with a bang. The long-rumored, long-postponed, long-hidden Mets Hall of Fame announced its class for 2010, its first class in eight years, and it’s a doozy. It’s so good I have this feeling I’m writing one of those “wouldn’t it be nice?” fictional blog […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them. I’ve never completely understood the notion that athletes aren’t supposed to express the opinion that they’re going to win before competition commences. Remember the trouble Benny Agbayani […] |
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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