 
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. |
Loyalty is strange. Not in the sense of feeling it for men decades younger than me, men I think I know but don’t in any way that matters. Though that’s certainly strange too. No, I was thinking about it in the context of how that loyalty gets transferred when those young men change — sometimes willingly and […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kodai Senga, Loyalty, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea, Tristan Beck, Wilmer Flores A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks Someday, perhaps, there will be another Kodai who plays for the New York Mets. I’d like to think that soon there will be a son of Mets fans, and his parents will name him for the righthander who left the Miami Marlins mostly spooked in his first two outings in the United States, the second […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Hobie Landrith, Kodai Senga, Moment of Silence, Team History Forty-two pitches into his Mets debut, Kodai Senga was in trouble. Our Japanese import, a feel-good story across that far bigger pond for rising from developmental player (the closest equivalent is “low-A cannon fodder”) to three-time All-Star with five rings, had needed 36 pitches just to get through the first against the Marlins: A single, an […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Avisail Garcia, Debuts, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Kodai Senga, Marlins, Pitch Clock, Rob Manfred, Tommy Pham On Monday of last week, the Mets signed at top dollar a pitcher on track to land in the Hall of Fame, a pitcher still at the top of his game, a pitcher at the top of the game overall. It made us mostly forget that our best pitcher from the previous nine seasons, our […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Bay City Rollers, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Bassitt, David Robertson, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Joely Rodriguez, Jose Quintana, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Serious Business, Seth Lugo, Steve Cohen, Taijuan Walker, Trevor May, Trevor Williams |
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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