 
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. |
Violinist Issac Stern played great music. Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote great fiction. First baseman Issac Benjamin Davis made a helluva catch on a foul popup in the first inning of Wednesday’s otherwise desultory Met loss. All these Isaacs were blessed with a talent for doing something most people can’t. Stern was awarded the Presidential Medal […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Art Shamsky, Carlos Baerga, Dave Roberts, David Cone, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, George Foster, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Stern, Jim Fregosi, Joe Ginsberg, Manny Acosta, Metropolitan-American, Mike Jacobs, Norm Sherry, Scott Schoeneweis, Seaverite, Shawn Green, Tobi Stoner, Woody Allen It’s great to be young and a Met, Ike Davis could tell you after his most successful major league debut Monday night. The 23-year-old first baseman was the toast of Citi Field from the moment he showed up wearing No. 42. If ever anybody stood out in a mononumeric crowd, it was this kid who […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Cautionary Tales, Chris Jones, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Great Starts, Hope, Ike Davis, Mark Clark, Mike Jacobs Ike Davis: I am NOT the Messiah! Apologies to Life of Brian, but that what’s it’s been like over the last 24 hours: Ike Davis was hastily recalled from some hazy, happier future to the troubled present, and after thinking about […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, David Wright, Debuts, Ike Davis, Rey Ordonez, Rookies, Tim Bogar I wish I could remember the young man’s name. I remember his age, 15. I met him last summer on an Amazin’ Tuesday at Two Boots. Big Mets fan, big fan of the blog, he said. Within a few minutes of introducing himself, he was excitedly explaining to me why the Mets would be in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Laxton, Billy Baldwin, Carlos Gomez, Craig Swan, Dwight Gooden, Fernando Martinez, Fernando Nieve, Ike Davis, Jeff Bittiger, Jenrry Mejia, Joe Smith, Jon Heyman, Jon Niese, Lastings Milledge, Mickey Lolich, Mike Jacobs, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Vail, Neil Allen, Nelson Figueroa, Prospects, RIck Ownbey, Roy Staiger, Ruben Tejada, Scott Holman, Sergio Ferrer, Team History, Tim Leary In Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch (which I’m about 130 pages from finishing, which is too bad, because I don’t want it to end), Willie tells a pack of reporters inquiring about the Giants’ pennant chances during Spring Training of 1961, “There’s a feel in the air.” One of his confidantes […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Fernando Martinez, Hisanori Takahashi, Hope, Ike Davis, James Hirsch, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jenrry Mejia, Mike Pelfrey, Spring Training, Willie Mays The 2010 Citi Field promotional date that has me most excited? It’s gotta be the retiring of 76 and 78. Sure, we’ll be disappointed to learn that Ike Davis and Jenrry Mejia have bowed to the world-wide clamor and agreed to curtail their electrifying rookie seasons and report for immediate induction to Cooperstown, but we’ve known […] Next week the clocks spring ahead. Silly clocks — we’re already there. We’re running on Jenrry Mejia Daylight Savings Time. Mejia was so lights out in his exhibition debut Friday that the umps called the game on account of darkness. This is a great time to be a Mets fan if you ignore thyroids, pink eyes […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Avenue Annual, Fernando Martinez, Hope, Ike Davis, Jason Pridie, Jenrry Mejia, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Maple Street Mets Annual, Mike Cervenak, Mike Hessman, Pink Eye, Spring Training, Thyroid If the 2010 Mets get off to a bad start on the field or once again demonstrate that they’re incompetent and/or tone-deaf about treating injuries, building ballclubs or relating to fans, we’re going to get typecast. We’ll be fans of the Big Team That Can’t, the grizzled, paranoid saps who trudge around accompanied by our […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Citi Field, Ike Davis, Jason Heyward, Spring Training Back in 2007, the Mets brought up a young man named Carlos Gomez. Gomez could burn — he and Jose Reyes used to race each other out to their positions, which I thought was adorable. He was just 21, but pretty big — the kind of guy you see as a doubles and triples hitter […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Hope, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Prospects, Shawn Green The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we’d have nothing more to sate our […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Eddie Kunz, Fernando Martinez, Gregg Jefferies, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, Jeff Kent, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Gonder, Jon Matlack, Jon Niese, Ken Boswell, Lastings Milledge, Mike Pelfrey, Mookie Wilson, Omir Santos, Philip Humber, Prospects, Roger McDowell, Ron Swoboda, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Topps All-Rookie Team, Ty Wigginton |
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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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