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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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History Repeated Itself

by on 27 November 2007 12:15 pm

The players were confident in mid-September.

• “I can't see how we can lose unless we all drop dead,” declared one of the pitchers.

• “I don't see how we can lose unless everything goes wrong,” the starting catcher predicted.

• “I think we'll win now,” was the future Hall of Famer's verdict.

• “We will walk in,” enthused […]

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Another Helping of Kool-Aid in Riverdale

by on 2 November 2007 12:48 pm

One of my favorite Faith and Fear comments of 2007 included this line directed at me by the ever-popular Anonymous in disagreement with my insistence that the Mets retire 24 in honor Willie Mays’ achievements as a New York National League legend:

Stop drinking the cool aid [sic] with those old guys up in Riverdale.

I found […]

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He Had the Whole World in His Hands

by on 2 November 2007 12:45 pm

Willard Mullin‘s Jint was the colossus of the baseball world in 1954, a status celebrated on the cover of the New York Giants’ 1955 yearbook.

Gosh, he’s so happy there. How could have he known just three years later…oh, never mind.

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Hands on the Torch

by on 11 July 2007 8:40 am

Willie Mays emerges in centerfield after the briefest videoboard introduction in which he was pictured mostly in the cap and uniform he wore when he was first wowing his millions of fans several thousand miles to the east. He’s engulfed Teddy Ballgame-style by a mostly new generation of All-Stars: a few perennials, but primarily young […]

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Retire 24

by on 19 May 2007 12:52 am

If you’re taking care of old business every week, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing.

Monday marked the 35th anniversary of Willie Mays’ debut as a New York Met. And the 35th anniversary of Willie Mays’ homecoming as a New York baseball immortal.

The two events were not coincidental.

The Mets weren’t […]

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A Great Day in Harlem

by on 20 April 2007 7:05 pm

On August 10, 2000, Stephanie and I trekked to Eighth Avenue and 157th Street to pay our respects to the Polo Grounds. The plaque, at the fourth of the four Polo Grounds Houses, marks the approximate location of home plate and notes that in addition to the Giants and some American League team whose name escapes me, […]

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My Giants

by on 20 April 2007 7:01 pm

If you can trace your roots without paying a genealogist, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing.

On April 18, 1957, New York’s National League franchise opened its home schedule just as it had done every year since 1883, just as it would never do again.

Fifty years and two days […]

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