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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.

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Right Fielders on Our Minds

by on 8 December 2024 12:16 pm

Remove some obstacles — like a fence; the Payson Club; construction on the other side of Seaver Way; the Van Wyck; and a creek also identified as a river — and theoretically you could make a direct beeline from right field at Citi Field to Four Points by Sheraton Flushing, the fancy corporate name for […]

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Out of Right Field

by on 7 March 2018 10:05 pm

Since New York and environs have been subject to the whims of nor’easters lately, let’s amble out to the northeast of the standard baseball field diagram and consider right field and its most practiced Metsian occupants thereof. We could forecast the weather, but the weather is revealing […]

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Around In Right, A Black Hole

by on 24 February 2009 5:04 pm

Do we blame this on Hubie Brooks? If we give him the credit for starting a trend at one position, do we pin accountability on him for a far more insidious trend at another position?

It’s Mets 101 that third base was the perpetually hexed corner for a very long time, roughly from the dawn of […]

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