Bill Buckner, one of the finest hitters of his generation, died Monday morning at the age of 69. Buckner recorded 2,715 base hits in a career that touched four different decades. He won the National League batting title in 1980, drove in more than a hundred runs three separate […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 World Series, An Appreciation, Bill Buckner, Moment of Silence Dave Roberts was out of position. Not the David Leonard Roberts who played 16 games at first base and in the outfield as an expansion Colt .45 in 1962, a year ahead of the Houston arrivals of Joe Leonard Morgan and Daniel Joseph Staub. Not the David […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Marty Noble, Moment of Silence On Wednesday morning, March 13, a bright, warm Florida day, Jeffrey M. Hysen woke up with a squirrel in his stomach. In his good life as a baseball fan, there had never been a month quite like this one. In the next few hours he was going to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Dan Jenkins, Moment of Silence, Spring Training Frank Robinson managed among us not so long ago, in 2005 and 2006, skippering the Washington Nationals upon their transfer from Montreal. As Mets fans, we mostly rolled our eyes at or rooted against Robinson when he poked his head out of the RFK or Shea dugout. […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2006 Mets, An Appreciation, Frank Robinson, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Orioles Sure, Oscar Madison’s column was a big deal in the New York Herald sports section, but who made sure Oscar’s copy made its way from Oscar’s messy desk to his editor? None other than his secretary Myrna Turner. The same Myrna Turner who made halftime history showing off her […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Luplow, Billy Connors, Chuck Taylor, Dan Ingram, Dave Anderson, Ed Charles, Frank Lary, George H.W. Bush, Jack Hamilton, Jerry Moses, Johnny Lewis, Larry Eisenberg, Larry Miller, Lee Leonard, Mets Pop Culture, Moment of Silence, Neil Simon, Oscar's Cap Awards, Penny Marshall, Peter Simon, Philip Roth, Rusty Staub, Stan Lee, Tommy Moore, Tracy Stallard, William Goldman, William Nack It was a June evening, the season before this last one, at Citi Field, by one of those tables out beyond center field where you stand and you chat and you chew. The combination momentarily got the best of me as a crumb went down the wrong […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Stats for Nuts, Terry Pendleton, William Goldman, Willie McGee Closing Day beckons, a day for one David above all to be noticed, to be sure. I assume, anyway. I know David Wright is not supposed to play after what’s billed hard and fast as his final game tonight. Regardless, I will sit where I usually sit […] The Mets’ second-half surge to the periphery of mediocrity ran into a roadblock Monday night: a team decidedly better than them. Not that the Mets can’t lose within their peer group or take random advantage of a contender bogged down in doldrums, but for the most part […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Cubs, Daniel Murphy, Good Teams Beating Bad Teams, Jon Lester, Jose Bautista, Kevin Plawecki, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Neil Simon, Noah Syndergaard, Suckbomb With my lone natural rooting interest spiritually if not yet officially mathematically eliminated from contention for the National League East title, I find myself inadvertently pulling for some combination of whoever isn’t playing the Mets on a given night. For example, when Brandon Nimmo stuck it to the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, Anthony Rendon, Cubs, Frank Lennox, Graciousness, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Rivals, Spoilers, Steven Matz, Victor Diaz Few baseball players attracted more nouns than Rusty Staub. Anybody can be described with adjectives. Most players are known simply as players, maybe identified by position. The late Daniel Joseph Staub, who died overnight in South Florida three days shy of his 74th birthday, had that part down cold: […] |
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