The Mets work on Father’s Day, so it’s not surprising to look back and find they occasionally did something memorable come the third Sunday in June. Marv Throneberry legendarily didn’t touch first (or second) in 1962. Jim Bunning didn’t allow any Met to touch first in 1964. Somewhere in the middle of the 1980s, Ralph […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Father's Day, Fathers and Sons, New York Giants, Team History I’m one of the few Mets fans to have had an uplifting Harvey Day Saturday. You might say I had a Charlie Day. Charlie’s my father. Charles, really. Dad to me. Dad doesn’t care about baseball, which is why he doesn’t show up often in these pages. But this week Dad has been front and center […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bonnie Franklin, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, Stenosis Despite the various commercial entreaties of Branden, Alexa and Christina, I can think of no worse place to take my dad for Father’s Day than Citi Field. Also, I can think of no worse place to take your dad. Or anybody’s dad, son, brother, uncle, grandpa, cousin or in-law. I wouldn’t jump to take anybody […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 50 Cent, Chris Young, Fathers and Sons, Jesse Hahn, Ralph Kiner It’s been a beautiful couple of nights in New York City, with gentle weather, nice breezes and the western horizon still faintly painted in sunset colors after 9:30. The Mets have been in Atlanta, far from here but right at hand — if you’ve got a TV they’re before your eyes, if you’ve got a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Fathers and Sons, Foul Balls, Jonathon Niese, Omar Quintanilla Before I became a father, one of my many reasons for not wanting to take that step was that I thought parenthood meant life would be static. You had a kid and disappeared, sitting at home waiting for your child to grow up into someone interesting. By the time that happened, you’d be fossilized and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin Cowgill, Fans, Fathers and Sons, Hope, Jose Reyes, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, R.A. Dickey Greg has always appreciated The Holy Books — my three binders of baseball cards, with each Met represented by a single card organized by the year of their Mets debut — while making simultaneously gentle and pointed inquiries about their administration. His biggest objection? It’s been that The Holy Books are organized alphabetically within each […] Joshua was very excited about his first-ever night game, crafting a highly detailed case for why he ought to be able to have ice cream very late in the proceedings. I’d been harangued long enough to stop listening very attentively by then, but I believe the gist of it was ice cream in the eighth […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, PItching, R.A. Dickey, Statistics Sunday was Father’s Day. My kid woke me up with a card he’d made. It showed us in the stands, with the figure in green with a mitt on one hand and a ball descending toward the two figures’ outstretched arms. The card read HOME RUN! Pretty nice way to start the day. We got to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Dusty Baker, Fans, Fathers and Sons, Pepsi Porch As I’ve grown older, I’ve had to be less doctrinaire about 1:10 and 7:10 and where in the pecking order of life “WATCH METS” fits. There are business trips, social events, the duties of fatherhood — a whole welter of things that sometimes come between me and the game. But most of the time, I can […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Howie Rose, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada Why did it take me nearly 43 years to get to Cooperstown? I’m not really sure. For a while it was because I was a kid, and I don’t think it occurred to me that the Baseball Hall of Fame was somewhere you could actually go, even though I must have read approximately eleventy-billion Baseball Digest […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Hall of Fame, Kirk Nieuwenhuis |
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