 
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. |
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. Well you’re a real tough cookie In 1962, the Mets promised their fans that Shea Stadium would be ready for 1963. It wasn’t. So instead, they invited them […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1963 Mets, 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Jay Horwitz, Mets Alumni, Polo Grounds, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium 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. True confessions time: When the rumor surfaced in the spring of 1998 that the Mets were about to acquire Mike Piazza, I was against the idea. Vehemently against it, in fact. The Mets, I […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Jeff Juden, Mike Piazza, Ramiro Mendoza, Roger Clemens, Shea Stadium, Ted Williams, Terry Mulholland 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. Being a catcher is a tough gig. The hours of squatting are bad enough, before considering foul tips, overenthusiastic backswings, and collisions at the plate. But being a backup catcher? That’s even tougher. Now […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Al Leiter, Alberto Castillo, Billy Taylor, Bucky Dent, Jorge Fabregas, Kevin McGlinchy, Matt Mantei, Mike Piazza, Robin Ventura, Shawon Dunston, Shea Stadium, Steve Finley, Tim Spehr, Todd Hundley, Todd Pratt Late spring is the time to see Gil Hodges work. Not summer. Then heat sits on the cylinder of Shea Stadium and a baseball season, like New York summer, grinds down strong men. Citi Field is entering its twelfth season. Children no longer eligible for whatever discounts being under twelve gets […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Anniversaries, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carlos Gomez, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Football, Gil Coan, Internal Affairs, Joe Smith, Luke Gasparre, Matt Adams, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Oliver Perez, Patrick Mahomes, Paul McCartney, Retirements, Roger Kahn, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Fernandez The independent Atlantic League, best known in Metsopotamian circles as base of operations for Buddy Harreslon’s Long Island Ducks, includes a team called the Road Warriors. You can’t go to one of their home games because they don’t have any. They are literally a travel team, existing […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Atlantic League, Corona, Daniel Zamora, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Drew Smith, Eric Hanhold, Ghastly Home Record, Road Warriors, Shea Stadium, Steven Matz, The 7 Train, Tyler Bashlor Five of us had tickets for the entire Mets-Phillies twi-night doubleheader Monday. More than five, according to official attendance figures, but I refer specifically to myself, the three people with whom I’ve been friends longer than anybody and the son of one of those people. I showed […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Citi Field, Corey Oswalt, David Wright, Doubleheaders, Old Friends, Shea Stadium, Showers, Waiting, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores The phrase “hey you kids, get off my lawn,” when used to mock someone’s stodgier instincts, has always bugged me, and not just because of my edging toward the demographic with which stodginess is reflexively associated. My stance isn’t in defense of stodge. It’s the literal interpretation I can’t hack. If somebody has a lawn, […] Long before “happy birthday to all the fathers out there” became what we love to quote on the third Sunday every June, a Mets-savvy person was likely to reflexively link Ralph Kiner and Father’s Day via the most impressive thing Jim Bunning ever did for public consumption. Bunning threw a perfect game on Father’s Day […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Applause for a Visitor, Howie Rose, Jim Bunning, Moment of Silence, Perfect Games, Ralph Kiner, Shea Stadium Together once. Miss Shea Liberty and I go way back, to her New York days. Together again. “Monte Irvin died,” I told my wife last week. I have a t-shirt that features a likeness of Monte Irvin’s 1954 baseball card, along with a bullet-point bio, his actual autograph and the thanks of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society for giving his time to the group. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Moment of Silence, Monte Irvin, New York Giants, Old Timers Day, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
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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