 
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. |
I’m still working on Flashback Friday as regards the final game of the season ten years ago, but I thought it would be interesting in the interim to provide some emotion-free context for 1997. Twenty-four men became New York Mets for the first time in 1997. Four of them — John Olerud, Rick Reed, Todd Pratt […] If it’s the final Friday of the month, then it’s the ninth installment of the special Top 10 Songs of All-Time edition of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. In the late summer of 1974, the foundering Mets decided to give anybody and everybody a try. Their first-time callups that August and September included […] If five years suddenly feels a lot more like a half-decade, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. It was a simple plan. In the bottom of the sixth, I was going to stand up when the leadoff batter came to the plate. I was going to clap. Applaud, really applaud. It would […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2002 Mets, Closing Day, Edgardo Alfonzo, Flashback Friday If you figured this one was coming eventually, then it’s the Flashback Friday you’ve been dreading at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Usually I get to sneak these commemorations in on the sly. Goodness knows I’ve had an exclusive on the tenth anniversary of 1997. Nobody scooped me on my 1977 Newsday route, Joe Torre’s 1967 […] When their season began, they were nobody. When it ended, they were somebody. If it’s the first Friday of the month, then we’re remembering them in this special 1997 edition of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Ten years, seven Fridays. This is one of them. My beloved 1997 season, the one few besides […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Carl Everett, Expos, Flashback Friday If it’s the final Friday of the month, then it’s the eighth installment of the special Top 10 Songs of All-Time edition of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Toward the end of the 1995 season, I found myself unusually enchanted by the Mets. It could have been their smiles, their personalities, their promise. Or […] 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 If you can remember when there were first times and when there were long times, but when there was no first time/long time, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Twenty years ago this month Dick Young died. I know — easy applause line. Go ahead: give his demise a hand if you […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Flashback Friday, Howie Rose, Radio, WFAN It’s been theorized in our darker hours that the Mets used up every bit of karmic energy in their reserves to pull out the 1986 World Series and once Buckner became Buckner, that was it, no more titles for us. Has it occurred to anybody that maybe we’re subject to the WFAN Curse? When the Mets were last […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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