 
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. |
Late spring is the time to see Gil Hodges work. Not summer. Then heat sits on the cylinder of Shea Stadium and a baseball season, like New York summer, grinds down strong men. Citi Field is entering its twelfth season. Children no longer eligible for whatever discounts being under twelve gets […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Rodriguez, Anniversaries, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carlos Gomez, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Football, Gil Coan, Internal Affairs, Joe Smith, Luke Gasparre, Matt Adams, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Oliver Perez, Patrick Mahomes, Paul McCartney, Retirements, Roger Kahn, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Fernandez The heyday of the New York tabloid wise guy columnist was in its twilight, but those fellas weren’t done roaming the print earth just yet, not in January of 1983, not when I needed a hit of what they were pushing. The Jets were on the verge of taking on the Dolphins in the AFC […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dread, Football, Hamstrings, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Ruben Tejada Winter does what it can to get us through itself. Every year it pounds signposts into the frozen tundra so we understand what feels like it will last forever doesn’t. We don’t anticipate the baseball rituals that get us through winter because we’re too busy anticipating the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Barbra Streisand, Brad Heller, Bryce Harper, Ed Coleman, Football, Gary Carter, James Loney, Justin Wilson, Manny Machado, Network, Radio, Truck Day, Wayne Randazzo, WCBS, Winter Eli Manning sits this Sunday. Technically, he stands on a sideline, bearing a clipboard, wearing a headset, doing whatever is done when backing up a starting quarterback. It will be the first time he has done so in so long that I can’t link to what we were posting when it last happened, because that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Eli Manning, Football, Icons, John Franco, Ron Darling, Time Friday night, as I was watching the Nets lose — an activity surely signifying the depths of winter for both me and the team to which I’ve clung through four post-Julius Erving decades as if I’m convinced the Doctor will be coming out of the locker room shortly to start the second half — we […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Ben Rowen, Cory Burns, Endless Winter, Football, Relief Pitching Maybe Terry Collins should have motivated the Mets more directly once they got to the postseason. Maybe he should have taken a page from Walt Michaels, the Jets head coach who, in the midst of the 1982 NFL playoffs, grabbed his players attention by focusing it squarely on the bottom line. “I remember Walt Michaels walking […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2016 Mets, Antonio Bastardo, Asdrubal Cabrera, Carl Erskine, Football, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Motivation, No Decisions, Postseason Shares, Terry Collins, Walt Michaels, World Series Shares For about five minutes late Sunday night I identified with the plight of the Carolina Panthers fan, remembering what it was like to climb to within a few feet of the top of the mountain only to slide irrevocably downhill. Now that the 50th Super Bowl is a rapidly fading gold-plated memory, I’m no longer […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Excitement, Football, Spring Training “Monte Irvin died,” I told my wife last week. I have a t-shirt that features a likeness of Monte Irvin’s 1954 baseball card, along with a bullet-point bio, his actual autograph and the thanks of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society for giving his time to the group. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Moment of Silence, Monte Irvin, New York Giants, Old Timers Day, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium “He called me when we won the division, congratulating me. I tried to return the call, but it’s like getting through to the President when you call the Giants. So I didn’t get through.” The crotchety and the crusty have lost one of their champions. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Longevity, Mets Managers, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Coughlin Losing by ten runs once you’ve fallen behind by four in the first inning isn’t better than many things, but based on recent, compelling evidence, it sure beats losing by one run when the tying run stands on third base. A 12-2 loss attributable primarily to Bartolo Colon simply not having it is almost relaxing […] |
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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