 
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. |
But — I said to myself — I want to get in. This is a World Series opener. I’d never seen one. There is nothing in baseball equal to it… Maybe you’ve heard the old saying, “If you keep letting the Braves make the playoffs, sooner or later a pennant […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Postseason, Arnold Hano, Astros, Braves, Brian Snitker, Dusty Baker, Eddie Rosario, Moment of Silence, World Series A sense of finality hovered over the Mets on Tuesday night. Last series of the proving-ground stretch versus the Dodgers and Giants, a span in which they’ve mostly proven they are almost if not quite completely done contending. Last serious shot, with 38 games to go from a distance of 6½ out of first, to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 30 for 30, Charlie Watts, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Heath Hembree, Last Chances, Moment of Silence, Nick Davis, Tylor Megill Our club’s in jeopardy of disappearing from the divisional race they led for months on end, so perhaps the appropriate way to sum them up is through a smidgen of Jeopardy. THEY WERE NEVER Who are the 2021 New York Mets? Correct. Uncertainty has the board. The Mets of the moment […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2021 Mets, Identity, Mojo Risin’, Moment of Silence, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Robin Ventura Certain Mets seem to come up semi-regularly in this space. Not necessarily from being great and, I’d like to think, not from my being cute or ironic. Certain Mets just hover in my baseball subconscious and briefly but habitually waft above the rest. Randy Tate was a certain Met. He pitched for the Mets in 1975. […] The Mets lost their first exhibition game on Monday afternoon, but they won a ton of goodwill Monday morning by unveiling the patch they will wear on their uniforms throughout 2021 in memory of Tom Seaver. The homage presents the retired-number disc that hangs in the left field rafters at Citi Field in miniature: 41 […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Banner Day Doubleheader, Craig Anderson, Jesse Orosco, Moment of Silence, Patches, Team History, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter Tom Seaver idolized Hank Aaron — “my hero in baseball from the time I was old enough to recognize talent.” Why would the future best pitcher in baseball gravitate to a hitter? “It must have been his form that made me pick him,” Tom wrote (with Dick Schaap) in The Perfect Game. “He seemed so […] Ray Daviault first came out of the bullpen for Casey Stengel on April 13, 1962. the second reliever used in the New York Mets’ first-ever home game. Ray’s mere presence made him the first Canadian in a Mets uniform. On July 7, after Marv Throneberry delivered a pinch-hit two-run homer in the bottom of the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Kaline, Bob Gibson, Claudell Washington, Dick Allen, Jim Ryan, Joe Morgan, Les Rohr, Lou Brock, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Phil Linz, Phil Niekro, Ray Daviault, Rick Baldwin, Tom Seaver, Tony Fernandez, Whitey Ford Every November 17, I think, “It’s Tom Seaver’s birthday.” I’m thinking it again. Tom Seaver would have been 76 today. What a heartbreaking sentence to write. November 17, 1944, was the first baseball birthday I learned. I’m pretty sure I plucked it off the back of one of Tom’s baseball’s cards, presumably his 1971 Topps, since […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Moment of Silence, Newspapers, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday The online Mets fan world suffered a loss this month when Warren Fottrell passed away at the age of 62. Though the name might not ring a bell, his work would probably elicit a ripple of recognition from anybody who’s ever clicked around in search of Met images. Inevitably you’ll find pictures of baseball cards […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Baseball Card Dreams, Moment of Silence, Warren Fottrell, Zvon In a sixty-game season with all the irregularities passed off as the new normal, it wouldn’t have been terrible to have halted Sunday afternoon’s Mets-Phillies game once it went official. Not for the usual reason that the Mets led after four-and-a-half and the bullpen later blew up, but because, in the middle of fifth inning […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Lou Brock, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, PItching, Tom Seaver |
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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