In the Mets’ first four seasons, the club twice lost home games by a score of 13-6. The first of them, on May 30, 1962, marked the coming out party for a chant you might hear enthusiastically when the Mets are coming on strong or ironically when the Mets pausing from going down meekly: “a […]
 
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 |  13-6 losses, 1982 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Dick Young, Expressing Oneself, Joey Lucchesi, Middle Relief, Party Deck, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Strawberry Sunday, Team History Starling Marte needed five pitches to start the Mets’ season. On the fifth pitch he saw from Patrick Corbin, the leadoff hitter singled to right off at Nationals Park. It was April 7, 2022, Opening Night. The Mets had yet to accomplish anything, but they were revved and running. They’d win that night and win […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cecil Wiggins, Duaner Sanchez, George Stone, Mitch Keller, Most Valuable Met, Rusty Staub, Starling Marte, Tommy Davis, Xavier Nady I got a huge kick out of leafing through the 1967 Mets Yearbook years after it was published and finding that even then Ed Kranepool, a mere 24 yet the only Met left from the Mets’ first year of 1962, was referred to as “The Dean” of the Mets in terms of continuous service with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bob Moorhead, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Cannizzaro, Continuity, Darryl Strawberry, David Robertson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Frank Thomas, Hubie Brooks, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, John Franco, Jose Quintana, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Justin Verlander, Longevity, Mad Men, Mets Once Removed, Mike Piazza, Mookie Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Seniority, Steve Cohen, Steve Trachsel, Team History, The Dean, Wally Backman Through seven innings Friday night, the Mets-Marlins contest could have gone either way. It’s not unusual that the identities of a given game’s winner and loser are yet to be determined with two regulation innings to go, but this brand of uncertainty gnawed a bit deeper. Lose this game to the Marlins, and it’s a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Afterschool Special, Billy Crystal, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Leon Russell, Marlins, Old Wives’ Tales, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Trevor Williams, Tyler Naquin Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I kicked off my half of our Met for All Seasons posts with a remembrance of Rusty Staub, my first favorite player — and how he turned out to be an ideal choice. That’s […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1976 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Banner Day, Baseball Cards, Bud Harrelson, Chris Speier, Cycles, Doug Flynn, Fans, Joel Youngblood, Mike Phillips, Rick Reuschel, Rusty Staub, Steve Ontiveros, Trades, Vern Rapp My Mets fandom begins with Rusty Staub. My first Mets memory is my mother leaping up and down in our house in East Setauket, N.Y., yelping “Yay, Rusty!” Though that undersells it, actually — that moment is my first memory of anything that I can connect with an actual person or event, as opposed to one […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Keith Hernandez, M. Donald Grant, Rusty Staub They called him Sudden Sam McDowell because he threw fast, not because he tended to put his team in the deepest hole imaginable as quickly as possible, but that’s what the hard-throwing lefty the Giants obtained from Cleveland did to his new team on May 14, 1972. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 47th Anniversaries, Digital Synchronicity, Don Carrithers, Grand Slams, Jeremy Hellickson, M*A*S*H, Noah Syndergaard, Rusty Staub, Sam McDowell, Team History, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays, Wilson Ramos 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 So. I pretty much took the winter off. I was busy with my other dorky obsession, writing books related to this oddball space-fantasy movie you might have heard of. But that’s an excuse. I was weirdly disengaged — to an extent that began to worry me. Granted, my disengaged would be a lot of folks’ full-throated fandom. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books, Yadier Molina 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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