 
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. |
Are you ready for some baseball? Well, are ya? Let’s cross our fingers and hope baseball is ready for itself. Baseball can declare all the intentions it wants. It still has to check in with the coronavirus pretty regularly to make sure it gets to proceed as it intends. Until we find out otherwise, it is on. Baseball, […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Poxes, Second Chances, Spring Training, Unusual Circumstances It didn’t fully hit me what a void we’re staring into until early Friday morning when I went through my weekly ritual of checking the forthcoming C-Span2 (Book TV) and C-Span3 (American History TV) listings to record any programming I might find worthwhile, choosing among classroom lectures, author discussions, unearthed newsreels…yes, my weekends do rock. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Adonis Uceta, Basketball, Chasms, Edgardo Fermin, Eduardo Nunez, Jake Hager, Jarrett Parker, Joe Zanghi, Johneshwy Fargas, Ryley Gilliam, Spring Training, Unforeseen Interruptions, Voids Spring Training was welcomed heartily last Saturday to 31 Piazza Drive in Port St. Lucie and, perhaps because it’s only been televised back to New York thrice thus far, has yet to expend its novelty factor. At the intersection of Brinson (Lewis, one of those few visiting Marlins who doesn’t require an introduction) and Clover […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 5, Aesthetics, Ali Sanchez, Basketball, Chasen Shreve, Clover Park, Davey Johnson, David Peterson, David Wright, Erasmo Ramirez, Five, Football, Harol Gonzalez, Hockey, Max Moroff, Mets By The Numbers, Quinn Brodey, Ryan Cordell, Spring Training, Steve Henderson, Stream of Consciousnesses, Team History, Tim Tebow, Uniform Numbers After a winter of discontent — signs brazenly stolen; titles shadily retained; postseasons potentially diluted; owners who never quite sell — baseball’s redeeming feature comes to the fore today: baseball, or something very much like it. A reasonable facsimile of the 2020 Mets will take a field or two in Florida. One group of them will […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Preopening Day, Redeeming Features, Rick Porcello, Spring Training Yoenis Cespedes said he won’t be speaking to the media this year. If he’s not speaking to the media, he’s not speaking to the fans. C’mon, Yo, talk to us. You don’t have to say anything substantive. Hardly any of your professional colleagues do when they’re not suggesting what acts of vigilante justice they’d like seen […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Communications, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Media, Spring Training, Yoenis Cespedes Pitchers and catchers reporting hasn’t done much for me for a number of years, which I say not in an effort to get you to feel the same way, but as an admission that I am a flawed human being. Because of course pitchers and catchers doing baseball stuff down in some dull Florida (or even […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Carlos Beltran, Jeff Wilpon, Jeremy Hefner, Jeurys Familia, Luis Rojas, Managers, Port St. Lucie, Spring Training, Yoenis Cespedes On Wednesday morning, March 13, a bright, warm Florida day, Jeffrey M. Hysen woke up with a squirrel in his stomach. In his good life as a baseball fan, there had never been a month quite like this one. In the next few hours he was going to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Dan Jenkins, Moment of Silence, Spring Training You knew me as Peter if you knew me at all You’ve […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, First Base, Pete Alonso, Peter Alonso, Prospects, Second Chances, Spring Training First exhibition game? I know people get excited, and that’s great, but for me, having done this over so many Springs, it’s about knowing what I can do and when I’m ready to do it. Believe me, I’m excited, too, but I’m not gonna do anything crazy […] Pitchers and catchers reported to Mets camp on February 12. Position players, if they weren’t already on hand, checked in on February 17. The first full-squad workout under the auspices of new manager Mickey Callaway was February 19. Exhibition games began on February 23.
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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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