 
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. |
Happy days in the hazy summer Several players pushed the New York Mets to the brink of a breakthrough in 2015, but one more than any other was the reason […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Donn Clendenon, Most Valuable Met, Pulp Fiction, Yoenis Cespedes In the spirit of one Miss Mary Richards, a spunky Minneapolis television news producer who probably rooted for the Rod Carew Twins if she rooted for any baseball team between 1970 and 1977, we offer a pressing two-part question. 1) Who can turn Mets fans on with his smile? 2) Who just took a nothing year and […] Twenty-five Mets said hello on Opening Day, April 1. Twenty-two of them said some variation on goodbye — whether it was farewell, so long, see ya later or be back in a bit — before Closing Day, September 29. Let us review how 88% of the 2013 Mets stopped or at least paused being 2013 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, LaTroy Hawkins, Most Valuable Met The name “R.A. Dickey” has become to us Mets fans what “Maria” was to Tony in West Side Story. Say it loud and there’s music playing Now, with the 2012 Cy Young Award voted R.A. Dickey’s way by veritable landslide, suddenly that name will never be the same again. It’s only […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cy Young, Most Valuable Met, R.A. Dickey, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story “I saw him play.” Listen, I’m supposed to present this award to you: Faith and Fear’s Most Valuable Met for 2011. It’s not a real award, so don’t clear space for it or anything. It’s […] Some players talk a good game. Only one in recent memory, however, has shown a knack for articulating an extraordinary postgame. R.A. Dickey is Faith and Fear in Flushing’s Most Valuable Met for 2010. He earned consideration through his pitching. He clinched the award the minute he cleared his throat. The knuckleballer nobody saw coming saved […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Articulate Pitchers, Most Valuable Met, R.A. Dickey Too bad the story is apocryphal. Too bad lefty Giant reliever Don Liddle — after retiring lefty Vic Wertz in Game One of the 1954 World Series with two on and none out — didn’t actually declare to his teammates upon being pulled in favor of righty Marv Grissom, “I got my man.” It’s too […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, Don Liddle, Most Valuable Met, Pedro Feliciano, Vic Wertz, Willie Mays Rare is the candidate who makes good on the vast majority of his promises, but when you find one who does, you owe him your vote. Thus, this Election Day, it’s a landslide. Johan Santana is Faith and Fear in Flushing’s Most Valuable Met for 2008. As we continue to pick the debris from the wreckage of […] ”To be voted the most valuable player on the worst team in the history of major league baseball is a dubious honor, to be sure. But I was awarded a 24-foot boat equipped with a galley and sleeping facilities for six. After the season ended, I docked the boat in Ocean City, New Jersey, and […] We didn’t have any great, great superstar players where one guy got all the shots. It wasn’t that kind of a team. —Willis Reed to Dennis D’Agostino, “Garden Glory“ My earliest, most serious sports allegiances were to the 1969 Mets and the 1969-70 Knicks, both champions in the making. I haven’t stopped since ’69 where the […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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