On August 10, 2000, Stephanie and I trekked to Eighth Avenue and 157th Street to pay our respects to the Polo Grounds. The plaque, at the fourth of the four Polo Grounds Houses, marks the approximate location of home plate and notes that in addition to the Giants and some American League team whose name escapes me, […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, Flashback Friday, New York Giants, Polo Grounds If you can trace your roots without paying a genealogist, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. On April 18, 1957, New York’s National League franchise opened its home schedule just as it had done every year since 1883, just as it would never do again. Fifty years and two days […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1957, Baseball Digest, Flashback Friday, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Roger Angell If your mind suddenly starts wandering in the other direction, it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Chronic purchasers of the annual media guide probably come across “And The Name Is… ” and no longer blink. This year it’s on page 3. As we commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Original Mets, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Continentals, Flashback Friday, Meadowlarks, Skyliners, Team History Joan Payson signed off on Mets but was said to be fond of Meadowlarks as the nickname for the new New York National League franchise whose ownership group she headed. Jim Haines of Zed Duck Studios created an insignia and mascot that we might have seen in the early ’60s if in fact Larks had trumped Mets. 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Flashback Friday, Meadowlarks, Team History Imagine if we hadn’t been Mets. We could have been Skyliners. It was one of the names under consideration in 1961 before Mets carried the day. Jim Haines of Zed Duck Studios worked up this early ’60s logo celebrating a five-borough skyline to give us an idea of what we might have looked like in one alternate […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Flashback Friday, Skyliners, Team History 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 Mets edition of Flashback Friday. Ten years, seven Fridays. This is one of them. If these Julio Franco times, when ballplayer age is such an elastic yardstick, could […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Flashback Friday, Jackie Robinson, Retired Numbers, Shea Stadium If it’s the final Friday of the month, then it’s the third installment of the special Top 10 Songs of All-Time edition of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Dave Kingman was driving in 19 runs. George Foster was driving in 10. Ellis Valentine was driving in nobody. And me? I was driving myself […] If we’ve been waiting all winter yet have to wait a little longer, then Opening Day must be rushing close on the heels of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Life, despite what Thomas Boswell says, does not begin on Opening Day. But it does peak then. Is there any day better than Opening Day? […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Flashback Friday, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day If the meaningless games in March take on occasionally deeper meaning, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. “The baseball exhibition! The baseball exhibition!” That was my roommate talking. He didn’t know anything about baseball, but he knew that the proper phrase was “exhibition game,” a nugget that had thus far eluded […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Al Lang Stadium, Flashback Friday, Spring Training If Joan Hodges is stepping to the podium in Cooperstown this summer, it would be justice. At the very least, it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Thank you Commissioner Selig, members of the board of the Hall of Fame, all of the Hall of Famers here today and all of you who made […] |
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