“The Mets — ah, the Mets! Superlatives do not quite fit them, but now, just as in 1969, the name alone is enough to bring back that rare inner smile that so many of us wore as the summer ended. The memory of what these Mets were in mid-season and the knowledge of what they […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Jenrry Mejia, Relief Pitching, Roger Angell, Writing The Village Voice recently and wisely named Alex Belth of Bronx Banter New York’s best sportswriter, and it’s a pleasure to present compelling evidence: “Two Rogers,” Alex’s exploration of the intersection of Roger Kahn and Roger Angell by way of Alex’s father, Don Belth. They’re three fascinating figures, as considered by someone who knows how […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Belth, Roger Angell, Roger Kahn, Sportswriting It hasn’t been the greatest offseason for following Mets’ news in our family — Joshua’s REYES jersey is gone, though I can’t bear to dismantle the diptych of Reyes and Wright above his bed — but the beat does go on. This winter, Joshua and I (often with Emily alongside) watched all of Ken Burns’s […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Bonds, Casey Stengel, Family Tradition, Fathers and Sons, Jackie Robinson, Ken Burns, Roger Angell, Team History In the spring of 1980, the New Yorker’s Roger Angell was making his incomparable annual rounds and alighted on St. Petersburg for a morning B-squad game between Joe Torre’s Mets and their neighbors, Ken Boyer’s Cardinals. The rookie getting everybody’s attention that March was St. Louis’s big first baseman Leon Durham — “he is called […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, Al Harazin, Billy Beane, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Roberts, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Leon Durham, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Cubbage, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Team History, Vince Coleman 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 […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1957, Baseball Digest, Flashback Friday, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Roger Angell If you haven’t already, by all means get yourself a copy of the Nov. 27 New Yorker, and read the Roger Angell season recap. I’ve loved Roger Angell as long as I’ve loved baseball — I remember reading The Summer Game as fast as a young boy could read a pretty thick book and realizing to […] Just a bit of hell to get us through a Sunday, eh? In this case, two is enough. FOSTER: His take on why he wasn’t playing in ’86 was, as Rey Ordoñez might put it, stupid, but if he hadn’t said a word on race and maintained his spot on the roster into the World Series, […] |
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