If you haven’t been to Cooperstown, you should go. It’s a lovely town. And you’ll be surprised in a way that’s unfortunately all too rare these days — the Hall of Fame isn’t a glitzy monstrosity but the kind of place that gets unlocked a minute after it’s supposed to open by a friendly guy […]
 
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. |
The sound and the fury notwithstanding, nothing much changed from a purely parochial perspective following Wednesday’s Hall of Fame announcement. Mike Piazza still rocks, T#m Gl@v!ne still galls and Tom Seaver still rules. Piazza didn’t gain induction. Big deal. He continues to be one of the absolute greatest Mets there ever was, his membership in the […]  24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Armando Benitez, Hall of Fame, Hideo Nomo, Jeff Kent, Kenny Rogers, Mike Piazza, Moises Alou, Paul Lo Duca, T#m Gl@v!ne Watching MLB Network the other night, I heard several Hall of Fame candidates referred to as “slam dunks” for election. No, I thought, absolutely not…and I don’t say that to diminish anybody’s chance for Murray Chass-approved immortality. There are no slam dunks in baseball. I mean that literally and figuratively. Let us not use phrases from […] Missing a ballgame because you’re in Cooperstown is a pretty acceptable excuse — this weekend, for the second year in a row, my wife’s family gathered there and prowled the Hall of Fame. (Foreshadowing: Last year I was in the plaque gallery, headphones in ears, when Kirk Nieuwenhuis collected his first big-league hit.) The 2013 Mets […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hall of Fame, Howie Rose, Kirk Nieuwenhuis 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 Twenty years ago this week, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum reached its peak as an institution of relevance when it ushered into its ranks Tom Seaver with the highest vote percentage ever. Since then, its various machinations have churned in a fashion that have overlooked the contributions of Gil Hodges, ignored the […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Larkin, Hall of Fame, Hints & Allegations, Jeff Bagwell, Media, Mike Piazza Saturday I woke up with two overriding concerns: sports and the weather. Would the Jets beat the Colts, and was it gonna snow? Only the Jets and the Colts could determine the outcome of that AFC Wild Card game. Nobody could do a damn thing about the weather. That always amazes me. We have all this […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | B.J. Surhoff, Civility, Dallas Green, Football, Hall of Fame, Saints, Tragedy, Weather That eleventh Met in the Hall of Fame we didn’t order has arrived anyway. What the hell, congratulations Roberto Alomar, second baseman in these parts for a year-and-a-half when the team wasn’t very good and he didn’t appear to try very hard. Cases can be made for his wearing a Blue Jays cap, an Orioles […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Carlos Baerga, Hall of Fame, John Franco, John Olerud, Lenny Harris, Roberto Alomar John Olerud’s name appears on the 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. It should be the other way around. The Baseball Hall of Fame should appear on the 2011 John Olerud ballot. THE 2011 JOHN OLERUD BALLOT Rules: Please vote for the honors, offices and/or institutions to which John Olerud should consider lending his considerable personage. Mr. […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, An Appreciation, Hall of Fame, John Olerud 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 |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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